Training mentors of clinical and translational research scholars: a randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To determine whether a structured mentoring curriculum improves research mentoring skills.

Method

The authors conducted a randomized controlled trial (RCT) at 16 academic health centers (June 2010 to July 2011). Faculty mentors of trainees who were conducting clinical/translational research ≥50% of the time were eligible. The intervention was an eight-hour, case-based curriculum focused on six mentoring competencies. The primary outcome was the change in mentors' self-reported pretest to posttest composite scores on the Mentoring Competency Assessment (MCA). Secondary outcomes included changes in the following: mentors' awareness as measured by their self-reported retrospective change in MCA scores, mentees' ratings of their mentors' competency as measured by MCA sco

SUBMITTER: Pfund C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4121731 | biostudies-literature | 2014 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature