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Trial reportAcademic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges2014

Training mentors of clinical and translational research scholars: a randomized controlled trial.

Christine Pfund, Stephanie C House, Pamela Asquith, Michael F Fleming, Kevin A Buhr, Ellen L Burnham, Julie M Eichenberger Gilmore, W Charles Huskins, Richard McGee, Kathryn Schurr and 3 more

Open access · bronzeAbstract readComparative StudyMulticenter StudyRandomized Controlled Trial
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Trial report in Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 162 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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162citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
18.9field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

162 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 257 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. Coaching to Augment Mentoring to Achieve Faculty Diversity: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges · 2016
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  7. A Randomized Controlled Trial of Mentoring Interventions for Underrepresented Minorities.Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges · 2016
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  9. Promoting mentorship in translational research: should we hope for Athena or train mentor?Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges · 2014
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  15. Diversifying the Interventional Cardiology Workforce: Why It Matters and How to Achieve It.Journal of the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography & Interventions · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors at 6 institutions in 2 countries.

Christine PfundDr. Pfund is researcher, Institute for Clinical and Translational Research and Wisconsin Center for Education Research, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin. Ms. House is research project director, Research Education and Career Development, Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin. Dr. Asquith is administrative director, Research Education and Career Development, Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin. Dr. Fleming is interim chair, Department of Family and Community Medicine, and professor, Family and Community Medicine and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois. Dr. Buhr is associate scientist, Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin. Dr. Burnham is associate professor, Department of Medicine, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, Colorado. Dr. Gilmore is associate administrator, Education, Preventive and Community Dentistry, Institute for Clinical and Translational Science, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa. Dr. Huskins is professor, Department of Pediatrics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota. Dr. McGee is professor of medical education and faculty development and associate dean for faculty recruitment and professional development, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois. Ms. Schurr is assistant researcher, Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin. Dr. Shapiro is professor, Departments of Pediatrics, Epidemiology, and Investigative Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. Ms. Spencer is research specialist, Research Education and Career Development, Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin. Dr. Sorkness is professor, School of Pharmacy and School of Medic
Stephanie C House
Pamela Asquith
Michael F Fleming
Kevin A Buhr
Ellen L Burnham
Julie M Eichenberger Gilmore
W Charles Huskins
Richard McGee
Kathryn Schurr
Eugene D Shapiro
Kimberly C Spencer
Christine A Sorkness
University of Wisconsin–Madison · USInstitute of Behavioral Sciences · JPNorthwestern University · USUniversity of Colorado Denver · USUniversity of Iowa · USYale University · US

Funding

Institutional Clinical and Translational Science AwardUL1TR000427 · NCATS · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI DREZNER, MARC KENNETH · 2012 to 2016
$32.2M
Yale University Clinical and Translational Science Award ProgramUL1TR000142 · NCATS · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI SHERWIN, ROBERT S · 2012 to 2015
$31.8M
INSTITUTIONAL CTSA (UW-MADISON): CLINICAL TRIALSUL1RR025011 · NCRR · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI DREZNER, MARC KENNETH · 2007 to 2011
$29.5M
PATHOGENESIS OF VITAMIN D REFRACTORY DISEASESR01AR027032 · NIAMS · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI DREZNER, MARC KENNETH · 1986 to 2015
$3.5M
Alcohol Biomarkers In Post Liver Transplant PatientsK24AA015390 · NIAAA · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI FLEMING, MICHAEL F. · 2005 to 2014
$1.5M
NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR000142NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR000427NCRR NIH HHS UL1 RR025011NIAAA NIH HHS K24 AA015390NIAMS NIH HHS R01 AR027032
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeTo determine whether a structured mentoring curriculum improves research mentoring skills.

methodThe authors conducted a randomized controlled trial (RCT) at 16 academic health centers (June 2010 to July 2011). Faculty mentors of trainees who were conducting clinical/translational research ≥50% of the time were eligible. The intervention was an eight-hour, case-based curriculum focused on six mentoring competencies. The primary outcome was the change in mentors' self-reported pretest to posttest composite scores on the Mentoring Competency Assessment (MCA). Secondary outcomes included changes in the following: mentors' awareness as measured by their self-reported retrospective change in MCA scores, mentees' ratings of their mentors' competency as measured by MCA scores, and mentoring behaviors as reported by mentors and their mentees.

resultsA total of 283 mentor-mentee pairs were enrolled: 144 mentors were randomized to the intervention; 139 to the control condition. Self-reported pre-/posttest change in MCA composite scores was higher for mentors in the intervention group compared with controls (P < .001). Retrospective changes in MCA composite scores between the two groups were even greater, and extended to all six subscale scores (P < .001). More intervention-group mentors reported changes in their mentoring practices than control mentors (P < .001). Mentees working with intervention-group mentors reported larger changes in retrospective MCA pre-/posttest scores (P = .003) and more changes in their mentors' behavior (P = .002) than those paired with control mentors.

conclusionsThis RCT demonstrates that a competency-based research mentor training program can improve mentors' skills.

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Competency-Based EducationProfessional CompetenceAcademic Medical CentersAdultAgedConfidence IntervalsCurriculumFemaleHumansMaleMentorsMiddle AgedStatistics, NonparametricTranslational Research, Biomedical

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PMID24667509
PMCPMC4121731
OpenAlexW1992382329

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