Revised Bloom's taxonomy as a mentoring framework for successful promotion

Promotion is both a rewarding and challenging milestone in an academic career, and the process is enriched by intentional mentorship. Junior faculty often seek a stepwise mentorship approach that allows them to accurately self-reflect on their progress toward promotion, while more seasoned faculty may benefit from guidance on how to effectively mentor their colleagues through the process.

Fortunately, the revised Bloom's taxonomy, the same tool commonly utilized to guide curricular development and assessment, serves both of these purposes very effectively.

This tale of four pharmacy academicians uses the construct of the revised Bloom's taxonomy knowledge dimension to define various stages of an academic career while drawing parallels with aspects of the cognitive process dimension in each stage and describes a mentoring framework that successfully leads faculty toward the next step of their careers.