The impact of active mentorship: results from a survey of faculty in the Department of Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital.

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 lo

SUBMITTER: Walensky RP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5948924 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature