Trial reportAcademic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges2016
A Randomized Controlled Trial of Mentoring Interventions for Underrepresented Minorities.
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30 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 60 citations in OpenAlex.
- Mentorship of Underrepresented Physicians and Trainees in Academic Medicine: a Systematic Review.Journal of general internal medicine · 2021Pooled it
- Mentoring as an intervention to promote gender equality in academic medicine: a systematic review.BMJ open · 2021Pooled it
- Impact of a Family Economic Intervention (Bridges) on Health Functioning of Adolescents Orphaned by HIV/AIDS: A 5-Year (2012-2017) Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial in Uganda.American journal of public health · 2021Trial
- Mentoring Interventions for Underrepresented Scholars in Biomedical and Behavioral Sciences: Effects on Quality of Mentoring Interactions and Discussions.CBE life sciences education · 2017Trial
- Expanding the Evidence Base for Mentoring Programs in Geriatric Mental Health.The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry · 2026Article
- Unlocking potential in underachieving learners: self-regulation development through AI-supported e-mentoring among socioeconomically disadvantaged students.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- The Resident Scholars Program for Workforce Diversity: A Qualitative Study About Supporting Family Medicine Abortion Providers.Family medicine · 2025Article
- National dissemination of an online research mentor training intervention: Evidence of an asynchronous model to promote learning outcomes and behavior change.Journal of clinical and translational science · 2025Article
- When mentorship goes wrong: from personal vignettes to a system-level playbook for safer, fairer academic training.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Article
- Mentorship Interventions in Postgraduate Medical and STEM Settings: A Scoping Review.CBE life sciences education · 2024Article
- Facilitated Peer Group Mentoring for Underrepresented Biomedical Researchers: Facilitators' Experiences and Implications for Dissemination of a Curriculum.The chronicle of mentoring & coaching · 2024Article
- Inclusive Research Environments for Deaf and Hard of Hearing English Speakers.CBE life sciences education · 2024Article
- Diversity in the pediatric research workforce: a scoping review of the literature.Pediatric research · 2023Article
- Mentoring strategies to support diversity in research-focused junior faculty: A scoping review.Journal of clinical and translational science · 2023Article
- Virtual Faculty and Peer Mentoring to Promote Social Belonging among Minoritized Physical Therapist and Nursing Students.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Improving Representation of Underrepresented Minority (URM) Students in Oncology Biomedical Research Workforce: Outcome Evaluation from the ReTOOL Program.Journal of cancer education : the official journal of the American Association for Cancer Education · 2022Article
- Revalidation of the Mentoring Competency Assessment to evaluate skills of research mentors: The MCA-21.Journal of clinical and translational science · 2022Article
- Towards a better understanding of medical students' mentorship needs: a self-determination theory perspective.Canadian medical education journal · 2021Article
- Meiosis in Quarantine discussions lead to an action plan to increase diversity and inclusion within the genetics community.PLoS genetics · 2021Article
- The Dark Side of Development: A Systems Characterization of the Negative Mentoring Experiences of Doctoral Students.CBE life sciences education · 2021Article
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Abstract
purposeTo conduct a randomized controlled trial to evaluate the effects of different mentoring interventions on the basic psychological need satisfaction of underrepresented minorities and women in academia.
methodParticipants were 150 mentor/protégé dyads from three academic medical centers and eight other colleges and universities in western and central New York, randomized from 2010 to 2013 into mentor training (using principles of self-determination theory); peer mentoring for protégés; mentor training and peer mentoring for protégés combined; or control/usual practice. Protégé participants were graduate students, fellows, and junior faculty who were from underrepresented groups based on race, ethnicity, gender, or disability.The primary analysis was a comparison of intervention effects on changes in protégés' satisfaction of their basic psychological needs (competence, autonomy, and relatedness) with their mentor. They completed a well-validated, online questionnaire every two months for one year.
resultsThere was no significant effect at the end of one year of either mentor training or peer mentoring on protégés' psychological basic need satisfaction with mentor specifically or at work in general. Exploratory analyses showed a significant effect of the mentor-based intervention on the protégés' overall psychological need satisfaction with their mentor at two months, the time point closest to completing mentor training.
conclusionsThis randomized controlled trial showed a potential short-term effect of mentor training on changing basic psychological need satisfaction of underrepresented scholars with their mentors. Despite the lack of sustained effect of either mentor training or peer mentoring, these short-term changes suggest feasibility and potential for future study.
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