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 • 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

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

Depart Mentoring Plans

• • Each dept. has one in place College of Medicine – http://academicdepartments.musc.edu/com/f aculty/dept_mentoring.htm

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 Assoc. Deans of Faculty Development to solve mentoring problems and strategize • One of Associate Deans responsible for overseeing implementation of mentoring in each department

Some Specifics of Mentoring Plans

• All Faculty at Assistant and Associate Level Required to Have a Mentor Regardless of Track • Best if Faculty Find Their Own Mentors (Chairs and Champions Help). Can be External to Dept.

• Need Mentoring on Career Development and Content Mentoring (e.g. for Research, Clinical, Education)

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. Clin Transl Sci. 2012; 5: 273-280

Key Mentoring Responsibilities

• Communication • Content Mentoring – Research, Education, Clinical • Career and Professional Development • Psychosocial Support

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Communication

 Establish expectations  Frequency of meetings  Listening skills  Prompt feedback  Manage disagreements and conflict  Foster trust

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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

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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

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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

Mentor (and Mentee)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

Mentor (and Mentee) Training Tools for Mentors & Mentees Topic Having Difficult Conversations Speaker(s)

Connie Best

Date

4/9/14

Time

12-1pm How to Develop an Academic Career as a Clinician-Educator Early Career Researchers Benefits, Challenges & Lessons Learned Insights from A New Mentoring Program in the Department of Medicine at MUSC Building Your Career as an Academic Educator in the Health Professions Ben Clyburn Elisha Brownfield Heather Bonhila Chris Gregory DeAnna Adkins Andy Goodwin Mark Bowden Gerard Silvestri Maralynne Mitcham Ruth Patterson 2/4/14 1/21/14 12/11/13 11/06/13 12-1pm 12-1pm 5-6pm 12-1pm

Location

TBD Library Room 405 Library Room 405 Clinical Science Building, Room 628 Library Room 405 NIH Peer Review Process Don't Be a Tormentor: Tips for Mentoring Students in the Lab Motivating Mentees & Team Building Kathleen Brady Jacqueline McGinty Ed Krug Chris Pelic Amy Blue 10/11/13 12-1pm 9/24/13 6/03/13 12-1pm 12-1pm Library Room 405 Library Room 116-118 Library Room 405