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Mentoring in the COM at MUSC

Mentoring in the COM at MUSC. Benefits of Effective Mentoring For Faculty and Institution. Mentee: Critical for Career Development, Career Satisfaction, and Professional Stimulation. If Well Mentored, Likely to Continue the Legacy of Mentoring

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Mentoring in the COM at MUSC

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  1. Mentoring in the COM at MUSC

  2. Benefits of Effective Mentoring For Faculty and Institution • Mentee: Critical for Career Development, Career Satisfaction, and Professional Stimulation. If Well Mentored, Likely to Continue the Legacy of Mentoring • Mentor: Professionally Stimulating, Personally Satisfying, A Way of Giving Back • Department and Institution: Faculty Perception of Department and Institutional Support, Less Attrition of Faculty from Academia, More Successful Faculty

  3. Departmental Mentoring and Career Development– Best Practices and Guidelines • Departments Have Adapted Guidelines to Enhance Existing Plans or Develop a New One • Framework Includes Information on Promotion, Resources, How to Document Career Development, How to Choose Mentors, Mentee – Mentor Agreements, Mentoring Metrics

  4. Progress with Departmental Mentoring Plans • Each dept. has one in place • College of Medicine – http://academicdepartments.musc.edu/com/faculty/dept_mentoring.htm

  5. Mentoring Champions • Each dept. has identified a Mentoring Champion to oversee implementation and progress of plan • Find out who this is in your dept. and meet • Quarterly Meetings of Mentoring Champions with Mentor Leadership Council and Assoc. Deans of Faculty Development to solve mentoring problems and strategize • One of Associate Deans responsible for overseeing implementation of mentoring in each department

  6. Mentor Training • CTSA Annual Symposiums to Train Mentors Across Campus and Provide a Forum for Mentors and Mentees to Discuss Ways to Improve Mentoring • Mentor Leadership Council (CTSA) and Apple Tree Society Hold Monthly Lunch and Learns on Mentor – Mentee Issues and Training

  7. Mentor-Mentee Training Series

  8. Mentoring in Academics - Origin of “Mentor” • Homer’s Odyssey • Odysseus placed his old friend Mentor in charge of his son Telemachus when he left for the Trojan war • “one who imparts wisdom to and shares knowledge with someone less experienced”

  9. Contemporary Definition of Mentoring in Academic Setting • A dynamic, collaborative, reciprocal and sustained relationship focused on a junior colleague’s acquisition of the values and attitudes, knowledge and skills, and behaviors necessary to develop into a successful independent faculty member Adapted from Abedin Z…,Feldman M, … et al. ClinTransl Sci. 2012; 5: 273-280

  10. Key Mentoring Responsibilities • Communication • Content Mentoring – Research, Education, Clinical • Career and Professional Development • Psychosocial Support

  11. Key Mentoring Responsibilities • Communication • Establish expectations • Frequency of meetings • Listening skills • Prompt feedback • Manage disagreements and conflict • Foster trust

  12. Key Mentoring Responsibilities • Content Mentoring – Research, Education, Clinical • Identify gaps in knowledge and skills • Identify training opportunities • Identify resources • Help formulate aims • Help design and develop plan to accomplish aims • Monitor progress • Step aside to allow independence

  13. Key Mentoring Responsibilities • Career and Professional Development • Facilitate opportunities and connections • Promote mentee in and out of institution • Help understand promotion requirements and fiscal realities • Help ensure sufficient protected time • Help navigate the system • Model and instruct on ethical behavior

  14. Key Mentoring Responsibilities • Psychosocial Support • Discuss work-life balance • Effective time management • Demonstrate leadership skills • Be sensitive to cultural diversity • Encourage peer mentoring (often similar issues for colleagues at same level of training) • Serve as role model

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