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The impact of active mentorship: results from a survey of faculty in the Department of Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital
- Source :
- BMC Medical Education, BMC Medical Education, Vol 18, Iss 1, Pp 1-8 (2018)
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- BioMed Central, 2018.
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Abstract
- Background To assess mentorship experiences among the faculty of a large academic department of medicine and to examine how those experiences relate to academic advancement and job satisfaction. Methods Among faculty members in the Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Medicine, we assessed personal and professional characteristics as well as job satisfaction and examined their relationship with two mentorship dimensions: (1) currently have a mentor and (2) role as a mentor. We also developed a mentorship quality score and examined the relationship of each mentorship variable to academic advancement and job satisfaction. Results 553/988 (56.0%) of eligible participants responded. 64.9% reported currently having a mentor, of whom 21.3% provided their mentor a low quality score; 66.6% reported serving as a mentor to others. Faculty with a current mentor had a 3.50-fold increased odds of serving as a mentor to others (OR 3.50, 95% CI 1.84–6.67, p
- Subjects :
- Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Faculty, Medical
020205 medical informatics
media_common.quotation_subject
education
lcsh:Medicine
02 engineering and technology
Hospitals, General
Job Satisfaction
Education
Odds
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Mentorship
Sex Factors
Academic department
Faculty survey
Mentor
Surveys and Questionnaires
0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
medicine
Mentee
Academic rank
Humans
Quality (business)
030212 general & internal medicine
General hospital
media_common
Medical education
lcsh:LC8-6691
Academic Success
lcsh:Special aspects of education
lcsh:R
Mentors
Mentoring
General Medicine
Academic advancement
Career Mobility
Massachusetts
Family medicine
Multivariate Analysis
Job satisfaction
Female
Psychology
Research Article
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 14726920
- Volume :
- 18
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- BMC Medical Education
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....11dabaf4f18a869ec7e97c29aaeaee3a