ContextMentoring, as a partnership in personal and professional growth and development,
is central to academic medicine, but it is challenged by increased clinical, administrative …

Effective mentoring enhances the personal and professional development of mentees and
mentors, boosts the reputation of host organizations and improves patient outcomes. Much …

Despite evidence of mentoring's importance in training researchers, studies to date have not
yet determined which mentoring relationships have the most impact and what specific …

Recent scandals and controversies, such as data fabrication in federally funded science,
data manipulation and distortion in private industry, and human embryonic stem cell …

Purpose To determine the psychometric properties of the Mentoring Competency
Assessment (MCA), a 26-item skills inventory that enables research mentors and mentees to …

Effective mentoring promotes the development and success of graduate students. Yet
mentoring, like other relationships, can have negative elements. Little knowledge exists …

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 …

Background and purpose Effective mentorship is critical to the success of early stage
investigators, and has been linked to enhanced mentee productivity, self-efficacy, and …

OBJECTIVE Excessive dissatisfaction and stress among physicians can precipitate burnout,
which results in diminished productivity, quality of care, and patient satisfaction and …

Purpose To design and evaluate a research mentor training curriculum for clinical and
translational researchers. The resulting 8‐hour curriculum was implemented as part of a …