Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.
Department of Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USA.
Med Teach. 2020 Feb;42(2):228-230. doi: 10.1080/0142159X.2019.1671967. Epub 2019 Oct 10.
Mentorship is essential for career development, personal development, and job satisfaction for physicians in academic medicine. Women in academic medicine face unique challenges including significant gender disparities in positions of leadership as well as difficulty finding mentors. As leaders in academic medicine, we have collated several structured recommendations for physicians of both genders seeking to be better mentors to female trainees and early career physicians. We discuss each of these recommendations in detail including the following: acknowledging your own strengths and limitations as a mentor, addressing issues of work-life integration, helping your mentee set long-term career goals, and acting as a sponsor as well as a mentor. We hope these suggestions are helpful for current and aspiring mentors and provide a platform to improve career development for female physicians and reduce gender inequities in academic medicine.
指导对于学术医学领域的医生的职业发展、个人发展和工作满意度至关重要。学术医学领域的女性面临着独特的挑战，包括在领导职位上存在显著的性别差距，以及难以找到导师。作为学术医学领域的领导者，我们为寻求更好地指导女性受训者和早期职业医生的男女医生整理了一些有针对性的建议。我们详细讨论了这些建议，包括：承认自己作为导师的优势和局限性、解决工作与生活的融合问题、帮助指导对象设定长期职业目标以及充当导师和推荐人。我们希望这些建议对现任和未来的导师有所帮助，并为提高女性医生的职业发展和减少学术医学领域的性别不平等提供一个平台。
