Department of Pharmacy Practice, Gatton College of Pharmacy, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN 37614, USA.
Am J Pharm Educ. 2013 Apr 12;77(3):51. doi: 10.5688/ajpe77351.
OBJECTIVE. To assess junior faculty members' perceptions regarding the impact of past faculty-mentoring relationships in their career decisions, including the decision to pursue postgraduate training and ultimately an academic career. METHODS. A mixed-mode survey instrument was developed and an invitation to participate in the survey was sent to 2,634 pharmacy faculty members designated as assistant professors in the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) directory data. RESULTS. Usable responses were received from 1,059 pharmacy faculty members. Approximately 59% of respondents indicated that they had received encouragement from 1 or more faculty mentors that was very or extremely influential in their decision to pursue postgraduate training. Mentor and mentee pharmacy training characteristics and postgraduate training paths tended to be similar. US pharmacy degree earners rated the likelihood that they would have pursued an academic career without mentor encouragement significantly lower than did their foreign pharmacy and nonpharmacy degree colleagues (p = 0.006, p = 0.021, respectively). CONCLUSIONS. For the majority of junior pharmacy faculty members, faculty mentoring received prior to completing their doctor of pharmacy degree or nonpharmacy undergraduate degree influenced their subsequent career decisions.
目的。评估初级教员对过去教员指导关系对其职业决策影响的看法，包括是否选择接受研究生培训并最终从事学术职业的决策。方法。开发了一种混合模式的调查工具，并向美国药学院协会（AACP）目录数据中指定为助理教授的 2634 名药学教员发送了参与调查的邀请。结果。从 1059 名药学教员中收到了可用的回复。大约 59%的受访者表示，他们曾受到 1 名或多名教员导师的鼓励，这些鼓励对他们决定接受研究生培训非常有影响。导师和学员的药学培训特征和研究生培训路径往往相似。美国药学学位获得者表示，如果没有导师的鼓励，他们从事学术职业的可能性显著低于外国药学和非药学学位的同行（p=0.006，p=0.021）。结论。对于大多数初级药学教员来说，在完成药学博士学位或非药学本科学位之前获得的教员指导影响了他们随后的职业决策。
