Faculty CV 

Since 2008, M-CV has been an important tool for our Medical School’s evaluation and promotion process and the management of a commonly formatted CV. M-CV will be read-only effective March 15, 2023, but departments/faculty and proxies will have access to view and print PDFs of M-CVs. 

We have replaced this legacy system with Symplectic Elements which will enhance the usability and automation of maintaining CVs. 

Benefits: 

• An improved user experience  
• Less manual data entry through integration with HR systems, research, and publication data  
• Ability to maintain multiple CV formats simultaneously (e.g., UM Med School format) 
• Ability to add more features and modules in the future 

Faculty candidates joining the medical school for the first time will need to carefully follow the guidelines and the sample CV to format their vita. Information pertaining to new faculty candidates can be found on the last page of the Med School CV Instructions. 

Med School CV Template

Access

Updating Elements with the data migrated from MCV

Several sections with Elements contain new fields which will require small modifications to get the data to appear correctly in the Elements CV report.  The quick guide identifies the subtypes that will need to be addressed.   

• Locate each subtype marked with an asterisk *
• Each record within an Elements subtype marked with an asterisk will need to be modified to appear correctly on the CV report. 
• For instance, Honors/Awards, every entry will need to be opened and new fields will need to be completed. 
• Journal/Abstract Reviews, every entry will need to be opened and new fields will need to be completed.  

Training Videos

Elements for New Medical School Faculty Workshop

This workshop is designed to be practical and allow participants to learn about the development of their CV in the required Medical School format utilizing Elements, the Medical School's CV software. This is especially helpful to those who plan to go up for promotion in the future.

Please click here to view the upcoming workshop dates and to register.

Elements Office Hours 

The Office of Faculty Affairs will host ‘Elements Office Hours’, which is an optional Q&A session about using Elements (the faculty CV software). These sessions are for those who have questions about how to use the Elements software application.   Please join a session if you have specific ‘how-to’ questions, or simply want to listen to the Q&A.  

Additional Resources

• Access and Help for Medical School CV:
  Submit Jira Ticket  or  Search the Knowledgebase to learn more about this application.
• Access and Help for Michigan Experts Profile:
  michigan-experts-help@umich.edu  or Search the Knowledgebase to learn more about this application.
• Application issues: Submit an HITS ticket