Background <p>Mentorship is an important resource for professional development and success.</p> Objective <p>Evaluate differences in mentorship with respect to personal, professional, and academic characteristics.</p> Design <p>Mixed-methods study using semi-structured interviews and a survey.</p> Participants <p>Promotion-eligible faculty and full Professors with a primary appointment in the Department of Medicine at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth.</p> Main Measures <p>Degree to which mentorship needs were met, generation of scholarly work, academic promotion, current, and ideal participation in academic activities.</p> Key Results <p>A total of 159 (54.6%) of 291 eligible faculty completed questions regarding mentorship. Fewer than half (76, 47.8%) reported that their mentorship needs were met “to a great extent” or “somewhat,” with no differences associated with race, gender, age, career stage, or rank. Faculty who were primarily educators (29/74, 39.2%) had lower rates of mentorship adequacy than research-oriented faculty (26/41, 63.4%; P = 0.013), and general internists (18/42, 34.6%) had lower rates of mentorship adequacy than subspecialists (56/105, 53.3%; P = 0.027). Generation of scholarly work, promotion within 5 years, and satisfaction with degree of engagement in leadership, research, and scholarship were positively associated with having one’s mentorship needs met.</p> Conclusions <p>Academic internal medicine faculty at all ages, career stages, and academic ranks have unmet mentorship needs. Mentorship gaps were more prominent for educators and clinical generalists than for research-oriented faculty and specialists. Having mentorship needs met positively correlated with scholarly productivity, academic promotion, and satisfaction with academic engagement.</p>

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Unmet Mentorship Needs in Academic Internal Medicine: A Survey of Faculty Affiliated with a U.S. Medical School

  • Kelly A. Kieffer,
  • Kathleen L. Carluzzo,
  • Daniel Albert

摘要

Background

Mentorship is an important resource for professional development and success.

Objective

Evaluate differences in mentorship with respect to personal, professional, and academic characteristics.

Design

Mixed-methods study using semi-structured interviews and a survey.

Participants

Promotion-eligible faculty and full Professors with a primary appointment in the Department of Medicine at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth.

Main Measures

Degree to which mentorship needs were met, generation of scholarly work, academic promotion, current, and ideal participation in academic activities.

Key Results

A total of 159 (54.6%) of 291 eligible faculty completed questions regarding mentorship. Fewer than half (76, 47.8%) reported that their mentorship needs were met “to a great extent” or “somewhat,” with no differences associated with race, gender, age, career stage, or rank. Faculty who were primarily educators (29/74, 39.2%) had lower rates of mentorship adequacy than research-oriented faculty (26/41, 63.4%; P = 0.013), and general internists (18/42, 34.6%) had lower rates of mentorship adequacy than subspecialists (56/105, 53.3%; P = 0.027). Generation of scholarly work, promotion within 5 years, and satisfaction with degree of engagement in leadership, research, and scholarship were positively associated with having one’s mentorship needs met.

Conclusions

Academic internal medicine faculty at all ages, career stages, and academic ranks have unmet mentorship needs. Mentorship gaps were more prominent for educators and clinical generalists than for research-oriented faculty and specialists. Having mentorship needs met positively correlated with scholarly productivity, academic promotion, and satisfaction with academic engagement.