P.C. Martin is assistant professor, medicine and health professions education, and assistant director for scholarly communication, Center for Health Professions Education (CHPE), Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, Maryland; ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7720-5667.
P. Duncan is assistant professor, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, and associate academic program director, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, Ohio.
Acad Med. 2023 Nov 1;98(11S):S10-S13. doi: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000005371. Epub 2023 Jul 28.
In 2021, Research in Medical Education (RIME) celebrated 60 years of advancing scholarship in health professions education (HPE). At that time, the nation's educational institutions faced a public reckoning on the long-standing pandemic of racism that sweltered in their practices and policies, laid bare by COVID-19 and the Black Lives Matters movement. RIME responded with a mentorship program for minoritized early career HPE faculty, which aims to amplify their voices in settings where their experiences and contributions are frequently dampened. The program fosters professional development through structured activities, participation as RIME committee interns, and formal mentorship channels to support career growth and offer experiences with scholarly publishing. This commentary was written by the first cohort of RIME mentees who are HPE scholars from various professions and diverse backgrounds with struggles traversing professional landscapes as immigrants and as individuals with minoritized identities and hopes for belonging in medical and educational institutions. In this commentary, the mentees describe the merits of the RIME mentorship program and what it meant to them and their unique marginalities. They also examine opportunities for improvements within the program to further reduce barriers faced by minoritized early career HPE faculty who often face limited support with scholarly activities.
2021 年，医学教育研究（RIME）迎来了推进健康职业教育（HPE）学术研究 60 周年。当时，美国的教育机构面临着一场关于长期存在的种族主义问题的公众清算，这场清算在他们的实践和政策中愈演愈烈，而新冠疫情和“黑人的命也是命”运动则将其暴露无遗。RIME 对少数族裔的 HPE 早期职业教职员工发起了一项指导计划，旨在在那些他们的经验和贡献经常被忽视的环境中，放大他们的声音。该计划通过结构化活动、作为 RIME 委员会实习生的参与以及正式的指导渠道来促进专业发展，以支持职业发展并提供学术出版方面的经验。本评论由 RIME 的第一批学员撰写，他们是来自不同专业和背景的 HPE 学者，作为移民和少数族裔身份的个体，他们在职业领域中面临着种种挣扎，渴望在医学和教育机构中获得归属感。在这篇评论中，学员们描述了 RIME 指导计划的优点，以及该计划对他们和他们独特的边缘化身份意味着什么。他们还探讨了该计划可以进一步减少少数族裔的 HPE 早期职业教职员工所面临障碍的改进机会，这些教职员工在学术活动方面往往得到的支持有限。
