Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken). 2018 Mar;70(3):445-453. doi: 10.1002/acr.23286. Epub 2018 Feb 6.
To determine perceived barriers and facilitators to effective mentoring for early career rheumatology investigators and to develop a framework for an inter-institutional mentoring program.
Focus groups or interviews with rheumatology fellows, junior faculty, and mentors were conducted, audiorecorded, and transcribed. Content analysis was performed using NVivo software. Themes were grouped into categories (e.g., mentor-mentee relationship, barriers, and facilitators of a productive relationship). Rheumatology fellows and early career investigators were also surveyed nationwide to identify specific needs to be addressed through an inter-institutional mentoring program.
Twenty-five individuals participated in focus groups or interviews. Attributes of the ideal mentee-mentor relationship included communication, accessibility, regular meetings, shared interests, aligned goals, and mutual respect. The mentee should be proactive, efficient, engaged, committed, focused, accountable, and respectful of the mentor's time. The mentor should support/promote the mentee, shape the mentee's goals and career plan, address day-to-day questions, provide critical feedback, be available, and have team leadership skills. Barriers included difficulty with career path navigation, gaining independence, internal competition, authorship, time demands, funding, and work-life balance. Facilitators of a successful relationship included having a diverse network of mentors filling different roles, mentor-mentee relationship management, and confidence. Among 187 survey respondents, the primary uses of an inter-institutional mentoring program were career development planning and oversight, goal-setting, and networking.
In this mixed-methods study, tangible factors for optimizing the mentor-mentee relationship were identified and will inform the development of an adult rheumatology inter-institutional mentoring program.
确定影响早期风湿学研究人员有效指导的感知障碍和促进因素，并为机构间指导计划制定框架。
对风湿学研究员、初级教员和指导者进行焦点小组或访谈，录音并转录。使用 NVivo 软件进行内容分析。将主题分为类别（例如，导师-学员关系、富有成效的关系的障碍和促进因素）。还对全国范围内的风湿学研究员和早期职业研究人员进行了调查，以确定通过机构间指导计划需要解决的具体需求。
共有 25 人参加了焦点小组或访谈。理想的学员-导师关系的属性包括沟通、可及性、定期会议、共同兴趣、目标一致和相互尊重。学员应积极主动、高效、投入、有承诺、专注、负责，并尊重导师的时间。导师应支持/促进学员、塑造学员的目标和职业计划、解决日常问题、提供关键反馈、随时提供帮助并具备团队领导能力。障碍包括职业道路导航困难、获得独立性、内部竞争、作者身份、时间要求、资金和工作-生活平衡。成功关系的促进因素包括拥有多样化的导师网络，以填补不同角色，导师-学员关系管理和信心。在 187 名调查受访者中，机构间指导计划的主要用途是职业发展规划和监督、目标设定和网络。
在这项混合方法研究中，确定了优化导师-学员关系的有形因素，这将为成人风湿病机构间指导计划的制定提供信息。
