J.J. Chen is a first-year resident physician, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts; ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5380-4825 .
J.J. Kusner is a fourth-year medical student, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1466-4345 .
Acad Med. 2021 Nov 1;96(11):1580-1585. doi: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000004152.
Mentorship is valuable to medical students undergoing professional identity formation. Many institutions lack infrastructure to facilitate the personalized mentoring that supports students' integration of new professional identities with their personal identities and values.
The authors developed a novel mentorship platform called Weave via a multistep, iterative design process, incorporating in-person and survey-based student and faculty feedback. Features of Weave include clear communication of mentorship offerings and expectations, plus opportunities to engage mentors based on professional and personal (identity-based) attributes. Faculty at Harvard Medical School who created a mentor profile within the first 3 months of launch and students who visited the website within the same period were invited to complete usability surveys in February 2019; students were invited to complete impact surveys in August 2020.
Fifty-two of 132 invited faculty members (39.4%) and 80 of 185 students (43.2%) completed the usability surveys. Most of these faculty (86.5%) and students (73.8%) reported navigating the website was easy/very easy; 36 faculty (69.2%) created a mentor profile within 10 minutes. Key innovations highlighted by faculty and students were the listing of personal attributes and identities of diverse faculty; centralized, increased access to faculty mentors; ease of use; and provision of clear expectations. Nearly all students who completed the impact surveys agreed that Weave allowed them to connect with a faculty mentor whom they would not have found through other sources and to learn about the dimensions of diverse faculty.
Weave is a customizable online mentorship platform that fosters empowered vulnerability and increases dialogue between medical students and faculty based on professional and personal interests and identities. Weave may be expanded to other mentoring contexts and adapted for implementation at other institutions to help cultivate an institutional culture that values mentoring and to strengthen broader diversity and inclusion efforts.
指导对于正在形成专业身份的医学生来说是有价值的。许多机构缺乏基础设施来促进个性化指导，而这种指导支持学生将新的专业身份与个人身份和价值观融合。
作者通过一个多步骤、迭代设计过程开发了一个名为 Weave 的新指导平台，该过程结合了学生和教师的实地反馈和调查反馈。Weave 的功能包括明确传达指导服务和期望，以及根据专业和个人（基于身份的）属性与导师互动的机会。在发布后的前 3 个月内创建导师资料的哈佛医学院教师和同期访问该网站的学生被邀请在 2019 年 2 月完成可用性调查；学生被邀请在 2020 年 8 月完成影响调查。
在 132 名受邀教师中，有 52 名（39.4%）和 185 名学生中的 80 名（43.2%）完成了可用性调查。这些教师（69.2%）和学生（73.8%）中的大多数报告说网站导航容易/非常容易；36 名教师（69.2%）在 10 分钟内创建了导师资料。教师和学生强调的主要创新点是列出多样化教师的个人属性和身份；集中、增加对教师导师的访问；易用性；以及提供明确的期望。几乎所有完成影响调查的学生都认为 Weave 让他们能够与他们通过其他来源找不到的教师导师建立联系，并了解多样化教师的各个方面。
Weave 是一个可定制的在线指导平台，它基于专业和个人兴趣和身份，促进医学生和教师之间的赋权脆弱性和增加对话。Weave 可以扩展到其他指导环境，并在其他机构实施，以帮助培养重视指导的机构文化，并加强更广泛的多样性和包容性努力。
