Perceptions of a faculty-trainee group mentorship program, the mentorship families program, in a residency training program: results from a cross-sectional survey.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In residency programs, the availability of faculty mentors for traditional dyadic mentorship relationships may be limited. Few frameworks exist for mentorship programs with a combined faculty and peer mentorship approach. The authors developed the Mentorship Families Program (MFP), a faculty-resident group mentorship program within a psychiatry residency program to meet the need for mentorship for a large cohort of residents. A cross-sectional survey was used to evaluate the impact of the MFP after its first implementation year.

Methods

Eleven mentorship families were created with 11 faculty members and 45 residents; each mentorship family consisted of one faculty member and 4-5 residents. A cross-sectional survey characterized the one-year perceived impact (2021-

SUBMITTER: Amonoo HL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11653835 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature