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Speed mentoring: an innovative method to facilitate mentoring relationships
David A Cook1, Rebecca S Bahn, Ronald Menaker
1Office of Education Research, College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, USA.
Background:
Junior faculty members have difficulty in identifying mentors. Speed dating permits people to efficiently try out interpersonal relationships.
Aim:
Evaluate a "speed mentoring" event to help junior faculty answer questions and initiate mentoring relationships.
Methods:
This single-group pre-post study involved junior (mentee) and senior (mentor) faculty members at an academic medical center. During the event, each mentee spent 10 min talking with each mentor in rotation.
Results:
Seven mentees and six mentors participated. All participants felt that time was well spent (mentees, mean [SD] = 6.3 [0.8] on a seven-point Likert scale [7 = strongly agree]; mentors, 5.7 [1.4]). Topics discussed included mentoring relationships, getting started in research, and time management.
Conclusions:
Participants perceived benefits from this low-cost, brief intervention to facilitate mentoring relationships.
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