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A professional development plan is designed to provide essential guidance as a professional in any field seeks to pursue and attain a successful career. Having a realistic professional development plan will serve faculty members well throughout their career pilgrimage and enable them to effectively and efficiently pursue their career aspirations and goals. This plan should be well thought-out and conceived, and should be reduced to writing in a manner that provides a realistic, achievable roadmap that a faculty member can follow. While soliciting suggestions and feedback from others can be useful when one is developing a professional development plan, it is important to remember that the purpose of such a document is to provide insightful guidance for the faculty member that authored this essential career development tool.
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Fleming, R.S. (2023). Professional Development Plans. In: Preparing for a Successful Faculty Career. Springer Texts in Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-50161-6_39
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