Mentorship of Junior Surgical Faculty Across Academic Programs in Surgery.

IF 15.7 1区 医学 Q1 SURGERY
Jingjing Yu, Perisa Ruhi-Williams, Christian de Virgilio, Shahrzad Bazargan-Hejazi, Helen E Ovsepyan, Steven D Wexner, Katharine A Kirby, Fatemeh Tajik, Angelina Lo, Aya Fattah, Farin F Amersi, Kristine E Calhoun, Lisa A Cunningham, Paula I Denoya, Henry R Govekar, Sara M Grossi, Jukes P Namm, V Prasad Poola, Robyn E Richmond, Christine H Rohde, Mayank Roy, Tara A Russell, Nicola Sequeira, Anaar E Siletz, Tiffany N Tanner, Brian T Valerian, Maheswari Senthil
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Abstract

Importance: Because mentorship is critical for professional development and career advancement, it is essential to examine the status of mentorship and identify challenges that junior surgical faculty (assistant and associate professors) face obtaining effective mentorship.

Objective: To evaluate the mentorship experience for junior surgical faculty and highlight areas for improvement.

Design, setting, and participants: This qualitative study was an explanatory sequential mixed-methods study including an anonymous survey on mentorship followed by semistructured interviews to expand on survey findings. Junior surgical faculty from 18 US academic surgery programs were included in the anonymous survey and interviews. Survey responses between "formal" (assigned by the department) vs "informal" (sought out by the faculty) mentors and male vs female junior faculty were compared using χ2 tests. Interview responses were analyzed for themes until thematic saturation was achieved. Survey responses were collected from November 2022 to August 2023, and interviews conducted from July to December 2023.

Exposure: Mentorship from formal and/or informal mentors.

Main outcomes and measures: Survey gauged the availability and satisfaction with formal and informal mentorship; interviews assessed broad themes regarding mentorship.

Results: Of 825 survey recipients, 333 (40.4%) responded; 155 (51.7%) were male and 134 (44.6%) female. Nearly all respondents (319 [95.8%]) agreed or strongly agreed that mentorship is important to their surgical career, especially for professional networking (309 respondents [92.8%]), career advancement (301 [90.4%]), and research (294 [88.3%]). However, only 58 respondents (18.3%) had a formal mentor. More female than male faculty had informal mentors (123 [91.8%] vs 123 [79.4%]; P = .003). Overall satisfaction was higher with informal mentorship than formal mentorship (221 [85.0%] vs 40 [69.0%]; P = .01). Most male and female faculty reported no preferences in gender or race and ethnicity for their mentors. When asked if they had good mentor options if they wanted to change mentors, 141 (47.8%) responded no. From the interviews (n = 20), 6 themes were identified, including absence of mentorship infrastructure, preferred mentor characteristics, and optimizing mentorship.

Conclusions and relevance: Academic junior surgical faculty agree mentorship is vital to their careers. However, this study found that few had formal mentors and almost half need more satisfactory options if they want to change mentors. Academic surgical programs should adopt a framework for facilitating mentorship and optimize mentor-mentee relationships through alignment of mentor-mentee goals and needs.

外科学术项目中对初级外科教员的指导。
重要性:由于导师制对专业发展和职业晋升至关重要,因此有必要研究导师制的现状,并确定初级外科教员(助理教授和副教授)在获得有效导师制方面面临的挑战:评估外科初级教师的指导经验,并强调需要改进的方面:这项定性研究是一项解释性顺序混合方法研究,包括一项关于指导的匿名调查,随后进行半结构式访谈,以扩展调查结果。来自美国 18 个外科学术项目的初级外科教师参与了匿名调查和访谈。使用 χ2 检验比较了 "正式"(由科室指派)与 "非正式"(由教员自己寻找)导师之间以及男性与女性初级教员之间的调查反馈。对访谈回复进行主题分析,直至达到主题饱和。调查问卷于 2022 年 11 月至 2023 年 8 月收集,访谈于 2023 年 7 月至 12 月进行:调查评估了正式和非正式指导的可用性和满意度;访谈评估了有关指导的广泛主题:在 825 名调查对象中,有 333 人(40.4%)做出了回应;其中男性 155 人(51.7%),女性 134 人(44.6%)。几乎所有受访者(319 人 [95.8%])都同意或非常同意指导对其外科职业生涯非常重要,尤其是在专业网络(309 人 [92.8%])、职业发展(301 人 [90.4%])和研究(294 人 [88.3%])方面。然而,只有 58 位受访者(18.3%)有正式导师。拥有非正式导师的女性教员多于男性教员(123 [91.8%] vs 123 [79.4%];P = .003)。对非正式导师的总体满意度高于正式导师(221 [85.0%] vs 40 [69.0%];P = .01)。大多数男性和女性教员对导师的性别、种族和民族没有偏好。当被问及如果他们想更换导师,是否有好的导师选择时,141 人(47.8%)回答没有。通过访谈(n = 20),确定了 6 个主题,包括缺乏导师制基础设施、偏好的导师特征以及优化导师制:外科青年教师一致认为导师制对他们的职业生涯至关重要。然而,本研究发现,很少有正式的导师,如果他们想更换导师,几乎有一半的人需要更满意的选择。外科学术项目应采用一个框架来促进指导工作,并通过调整指导者与被指导者的目标和需求来优化指导者与被指导者之间的关系。
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JAMA surgery
JAMA surgery SURGERY-
CiteScore
20.80
自引率
3.60%
发文量
400
期刊介绍: JAMA Surgery, an international peer-reviewed journal established in 1920, is the official publication of the Association of VA Surgeons, the Pacific Coast Surgical Association, and the Surgical Outcomes Club.It is a proud member of the JAMA Network, a consortium of peer-reviewed general medical and specialty publications.
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