From the Department of Anesthesiology Critical Care Medicine, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California.
Division of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas.
Anesth Analg. 2023 Oct 1;137(4):754-762. doi: 10.1213/ANE.0000000000006646. Epub 2023 Sep 5.
The challenges facing the health care industry in the post-coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic world are numerous, jeopardizing wellness, and performance. Maintaining engagement and fulfillment of anesthesiologists in their work is now a critical issue in various practice settings: academic, private practice, and corporate medicine. In this article, we offer insights on how mentorship, sponsorship, and allyship are important in the advancement of the anesthesiology workforce including women and underrepresented minorities inclusive of race, gender, and disability. Mentorship, sponsorship, and allyship require a framework that intentionally addresses the programmatic structures needed to optimize the environment for increasing women, underrepresented minorities, and other diverse groups. These 3 distinct yet interrelated concepts are defined with a discussion on the value of implementation. In addition, the concept of "belonging" and its importance in enhancing the culture in anesthesiology is explored. We believe that part of the solution to wellness, recruitment and retention and improved job satisfaction of clinicians is having an environment where mentorship, sponsorship, and allyship are foundational.
在 2019 冠状病毒病（COVID-19）大流行后的世界中，医疗保健行业面临着众多挑战，这危及到人们的健康和生活。在各种实践环境中，保持麻醉师在工作中的投入和成就感现在是一个关键问题：学术环境、私人执业和企业医疗。在本文中，我们提供了一些见解，说明指导、赞助和支持在推进麻醉师队伍方面的重要性，包括女性和代表性不足的少数群体，包括种族、性别和残疾。指导、赞助和支持需要一个框架，有针对性地解决计划结构问题，以优化环境，增加女性、代表性不足的少数群体和其他多样化群体的数量。这 3 个不同但相互关联的概念通过讨论实施的价值进行了定义。此外，还探讨了“归属感”的概念及其在增强麻醉学文化中的重要性。我们认为，解决临床医生的健康、招聘和留用以及提高工作满意度问题的部分解决方案是营造一个以指导、赞助和支持为基础的环境。
