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ArticlePloS one2020

Culturally aware mentorship: Lasting impacts of a novel intervention on academic administrators and faculty.

Veronica Y Womack, Christine V Wood, Stephanie C House, Sandra C Quinn, Stephen B Thomas, Richard McGee, Angela Byars-Winston

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Article in PloS one, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 37 papers.

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37citing papers in PubMed
7.4field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

37 citing papers in PubMed, 72 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Building a diverse and inclusive plant science community.Journal of experimental botany · 2026
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  5. Mentorship, Sponsorship, and Coaching in Academic Medicine: Essential Elements of Faculty Development.Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry · 2026
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  9. Development and Implementation of a Structured and Innovative Faculty-Wide Mentorship Program for a Large Department of Psychiatry.Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry · 2025
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  16. The power of junior faculty mentoring committees.Journal of cellular physiology · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Veronica Y WomackSearle Center for Advancing Teaching and Learning, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0002-7448-1391
Christine V WoodDepartment of Medical Social Sciences, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, United States of America.
Stephanie C HouseInstitute for Clinical and Translational Research, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States of America.
Sandra C QuinnDepartment of Family Science and Maryland Center for Health Equity, School of Public Health, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States of America.
Stephen B ThomasDepartment of Health Policy and Management and Maryland Center for Health Equity, School of Public Health, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States of America.
Richard McGeeFaculty Affairs, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, United States of America.
Angela Byars-WinstonDepartment of Medicine, Center for Women's Health Research, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States of America.
Northwestern University · USUniversity of Maryland, College Park · USUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison · US

Funding

Texas Minority Health, Research and Outreach (MiHERO)S21MD012472 · NIMHD · UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR · PI JAMBOOR K. VISHWANATHA · 2017 to 2026
$18.0M
National Research Mentoring Network for a Diverse Biomedical WorkforceU54GM119023 · NIGMS · BOSTON COLLEGE · PI OFILI, ELIZABETH O., OKUYEMI, KOLAWOLE S · 2015 to 2018
$15.3M
Uncovering and Addressing Cultural Beliefs Behind Vaccine Racial Disparities P20MD006737 · NIMHD · UNIV OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK · PI QUINN, SANDRA CROUSE, THOMAS, STEPHEN B. · 2012 to 2016
$5.9M
NIGMS NIH HHS U54 GM119023NIMHD NIH HHS P20 MD006737NIMHD NIH HHS S21 MD012472
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

National efforts to address the diversity dilemma in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) often emphasize increasing numbers of historically underrepresented (HU) students and faculty, but fall short in instituting concrete changes for inclusion and belonging. Therefore, increasing the pool of senior faculty who wish to become guides and advocates for emerging scientists from HU populations is an essential step toward creating new pathways for their career advancement. As a step toward achieving this goal, we created a novel eight-hour intervention on Culturally Aware Mentoring (CAM), a program of the National Research Mentoring Network (NRMN) targeted to faculty and administrators. A previous report of surveys at the end of the CAM sessions revealed substantial awareness and knowledge gains, with participants expressing intentions to use and implement new skills they had learned. In this paper, we provide the results of our thematic analysis of qualitative interviews with academic administrators and faculty, 18-24 months after participation in CAM. Interviews were designed to determine: 1) What changes in self-perceptions and interactions occurred as a result of participation in CAM? 2) What specific components of CAM are associated with changes in individual beliefs and practices? 3) How did participants actively make changes after the CAM workshop? 4) What barriers or challenges do participants encounter after the CAM intervention? The results demonstrate the lasting influences of CAM on participants' awareness of cultural differences, their assumptions about and approaches toward interactions with colleagues and students, and their efforts to change their behaviors to promote inclusive practices in their mentoring and teaching of HU students in STEM. Our findings provide evidence that CAM can be incorporated into existing mentor training programs designed to improve the confidence and capacity of senior research faculty mentors to make culturally-informed, scholar-centered decisions to more deliberately recognize and respond to cultural differences within their mentoring and collegial relationships.

Indexed as

Administrative PersonnelCultural DiversityFacultyMentoringBiological Science DisciplinesFaculty, MedicalHumansMentorsPeer GroupScienceSocial SkillsStaff DevelopmentUnited States

Identifiers

PMID32764768
PMCPMC7413486
OpenAlexW3047959274

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