Published in:
01-07-2019 | Concise Research Reports
Perceptions of Junior Faculty in General Internal Medicine Regarding Mentoring Medical Students and Residents in Scholarly Projects
Authors:
Pinky Jha, MD, MPH, Brian Quinn, MD, Samantha Durbin, BS, Sanjay Bhandari, MD
Published in:
Journal of General Internal Medicine
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Issue 7/2019
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Excerpt
One goal of faculty development is to cultivate a culture of scholarship and mentorship.
1 Scholarship is important for professional development and academic advancement and good mentors are essential for academic success.
2 While mentoring is important, most clinician-educators have received little training, though are often asked to mentor students and residents. This can be difficult, given the competing challenges of their different clinical and non-clinical responsibilities. Our study’s purpose was to survey junior faculty in the Division of General Internal Medicine (GIM) at a tertiary academic center to explore their perceptions regarding benefits of mentoring, barriers to mentoring, and possible interventions to counteract such barriers. …
