Trial reportAcademic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges2014
Promoting mentorship in translational research: should we hope for Athena or train mentor?
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 14 papers.
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14 citing papers in PubMed.
- A scoping review of mentorship in a CTSA context: A summary of past work and an agenda for future research.Journal of clinical and translational science · 2025Review
- International online mentorship for translational researchers.BMC medical education · 2024Article
- Optimizing team science in an academic medical center: A qualitative examination of investigator perspectives.Journal of clinical and translational science · 2023Article
- Mentoring Barriers, Expected Outcomes, and Practices in Scientific Communication: Scale Development and Validation.Journal of career development · 2022Article
- Measuring organizational mentoring climate: Importance and availability scales.Journal of clinical and translational science · 2020Article
- A randomized controlled pilot study of the University of Minnesota mentoring excellence training academy: A hybrid learning approach to research mentor training.Journal of clinical and translational science · 2019Article
- Building consensus on identifying research mentoring gaps and finding ways of addressing the gap in a Kenyan college of health sciences.African journal of primary health care & family medicine · 2019Article
- Implementing and measuring the impact of a clinical and translational research mentor recognition program.Journal of clinical and translational science · 2018Article
- Population health intervention research training: the value of public health internships and mentorship.Public health reviews · 2018Review
- Grant Success for Early-Career Faculty in Patient-Oriented Research: Difference-in-Differences Evaluation of an Interdisciplinary Mentored Research Training Program.Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges · 2016Article
- Challenges and Benefits in Designing and Implementing a Team-Based Research Mentorship Experience in Translational Research.Pedagogy in health promotion · 2015Article
- Sustaining the Clinical and Translational Research Workforce: Training and Empowering the Next Generation of Investigators.Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges · 2015Article
- Designing a knowledge translation mentorship program to support the implementation of evidence-based innovations.BMC health services research · 2015Article
- Building national capacity for research mentor training: an evidence-based approach to training the trainers.CBE life sciences education · 2015Article
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Abstract
Despite consensus that mentorship is a critical determinant of career success, many academic health centers (AHCs) do not provide formal training for their mentors. In part, this problem arises from a lack of evidence-based mentorship training curricula. In this issue of Academic Medicine, Pfund and colleagues from 16 AHCs, including 15 Clinical Translational Science Award institutions report the results of a randomized, controlled trial that addressed this research gap. In their study, mentors randomized to undertake a formal mentoring curriculum reported significant gains in self-assessed competencies. These improvements were corroborated by the most critical and objective observers of mentorship skills: their own mentees.Evidence-based curricula will not transform research mentorship in isolation. An organization-wide culture of mentorship is necessary to meet the mentorship needs of all research trainees and faculty. The development of a culture of mentorship requires attention to structural issues such as the provision of protected time, physical resources, and targeted funding in addition to evidence-based curricula. Organizations must monitor the implementation of these structures in the day-to-day process of mentorship. Finally, institutions must develop measures to track outcomes for both mentors and mentees, and create incentives to achieve those outcomes. In the current environment of constrained research funding and competing demands from clinical and educational programs, a substantive organizational commitment to mentorship is necessary to ensure that the next generation of mentees achieves success in translational research.
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