Schrubbe Katherine F
Department of Clinical Services, Marquette University School of Dentistry, Milwaukee, WI 53201-1881, USA.
J Dent Educ. 2004 Mar;68(3):324-8.
Faculty in a twenty-first century school of dentistry face a variety of daily challenges. Balancing teaching, research, and scholarship can be an overwhelming task for junior faculty and is influenced by the environment and the interactions we have with colleagues. Effective mentorship can play a critical role in professional growth and development as well as academic success. Excellent mentors provide a distinct vision and can guide their protégés to achieve the goals associated with these visions. Current literature supports the definitive characteristics that potential protégés and effective mentors exhibit and delineates how mentoring can enhance productivity, efficiency, and motivation. There is also evidence that formal mentoring programs have an overall positive impact on junior faculty and may assist in retention of dental school faculty. Successful mentors take protégés under their wings for guidance, inspiration, and encouragement and in the process create motivated, productive, and successful teachers and researchers, thus leaving a legacy. The purpose of this paper is to review the literature regarding the importance and benefits of excellent mentorship.
21世纪牙科学院的教员面临着各种各样的日常挑战。对于初级教员来说，平衡教学、研究和学术是一项艰巨的任务，并且会受到环境以及我们与同事互动的影响。有效的指导在职业成长与发展以及学术成就方面能够发挥关键作用。优秀的导师具有独特的视野，能够引导他们的门生实现与这些视野相关的目标。当前的文献支持了潜在门生和有效导师所展现出的决定性特征，并阐述了指导如何提高生产力、效率和动力。也有证据表明，正式的指导计划对初级教员具有总体上的积极影响，并且可能有助于牙科学院教员的留任。成功的导师会庇护门生，给予指导、启发和鼓励，在此过程中培养出积极进取、富有成效且成功的教师和研究人员，从而留下一笔遗产。本文的目的是回顾关于优秀指导的重要性和益处的文献。
