Department of Anesthesiology, University of Florida College of Medicine, 1600 SW Archer Rd., Gainesville, FL, USA; Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Sports Medicine, University of Florida College of Medicine, P.O. Box 112727, Gainesville, FL, USA.
Department of Anesthesiology, University of Florida College of Medicine, 1600 SW Archer Rd., Gainesville, FL, USA.
J Clin Anesth. 2024 Oct;97:111558. doi: 10.1016/j.jclinane.2024.111558. Epub 2024 Jul 24.
While mentoring programs have demonstrated success for faculty development, reported rates of formal mentoring programs vary for specific programs as well as academic medical institutions overall. The aim of this paper was to evaluate the overall prevalence of faculty mentoring programs and faculty development offices in anesthesiology departments and at academic medical schools and assess the association between those with mentoring programs and faculty development support and NIH funding.
This study used publicly available data from program and institutional websites to record the presence of faculty mentoring programs and faculty development offices in anesthesiology departments as well as both formal and informal mentoring activities and whether there were offices and deans specifically related to faculty development at the institutional level. Data on NIH funding of anesthesiology departments were recorded from the Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research rankings of medical schools and their departments. Cramer's V was used to evaluate the association between NIH funding and the presence of mentoring programs offered by the department and/or institution. Logistic regression was used to evaluate the association between total NIH funding of ranked programs (categorized as above or below median of funding) and presence of mentoring programs.
The study included 164 US anesthesiology programs, of which 33% had NIH funding. Only 10% of anesthesiology programs had faculty mentoring programs and 29% had offices or leadership positions related to faculty development. At the institutional level, 59% had formal mentoring programs, 73% offered informal mentoring activities, and 77% had offices or deans related to faculty development. Seventy-four percent (74%) of anesthesiology departments offering mentoring resources had NIH funding, compared to only 26% of departments without such resources. For anesthesiology departments with NIH funding, departments in the upper median of funded programs were much more likely to have departmental mentoring resources (OR = 1.429.08; 95% CI: 1.721.03-1.9748.99). Departmental NIH funding was not significantly associated with institutional level presence of formal mentoring programs (OR = 0.91; 95% CI: 0.0.23-3.65).
Our findings suggest an association between the presence of faculty mentoring programs and faculty development support with departmental NIH funding, with the amount of funding associated primarily with department-specific mentoring and faculty development initiatives. Our findings support efforts to create formal mentoring programs and establish offices and other support systems for faculty development and suggest, at least in terms of academic productivity, that efforts should be more focused on department-specific initiatives.
尽管导师计划已被证明对教师发展有成效，但特定项目和整个学术医疗机构的正式导师计划的报告率差异很大。本文的目的是评估麻醉科和学术医学院系中教师指导计划和教师发展办公室的总体流行率，并评估那些具有指导计划和教师发展支持的机构与 NIH 资助之间的关联。
本研究使用来自计划和机构网站的公开数据记录麻醉科系的教师指导计划和教师发展办公室的存在情况，以及正式和非正式的指导活动，以及在机构层面是否有专门与教师发展相关的办公室和院长。从蓝岭医学研究所对医学院及其系的排名中记录了 NIH 对麻醉科系的资助数据。使用 Cramer's V 评估 NIH 资助与部门和/或机构提供的指导计划之间的关联。使用逻辑回归评估排名计划（按资助中位数以上或以下分类）的 NIH 资助总额与指导计划的存在之间的关联。
该研究包括 164 个美国麻醉科计划，其中 33%有 NIH 资助。只有 10%的麻醉科计划有教师指导计划，29%有与教师发展相关的办公室或领导职位。在机构层面，59%有正式的指导计划，73%提供非正式的指导活动，77%有与教师发展相关的办公室或院长。提供指导资源的 74%（74%）的麻醉科部门有 NIH 资助，而没有此类资源的部门只有 26%。对于有 NIH 资助的麻醉科部门，处于中位以上的受资助计划部门更有可能拥有部门指导资源（OR=1.429.08；95%CI：1.721.03-1.9748.99）。部门 NIH 资助与机构层面正式指导计划的存在没有显著关联（OR=0.91；95%CI：0.0.23-3.65）。
我们的研究结果表明，教师指导计划和教师发展支持与部门 NIH 资助之间存在关联，而资助金额主要与部门特定的指导和教师发展计划相关。我们的研究结果支持创建正式的指导计划和建立教师发展办公室和其他支持系统的努力，并表明，至少在学术生产力方面，努力应更加侧重于部门特定的计划。
