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Coaching, Mentoring, and Sponsoring as Career Development Tools
Dean A Seehusen1, Tyler S Rogers2, Morhaf Al Achkar3
1Department of Family Medicine, Augusta University, Augusta, GA.
Family Medicine
|March 16, 2021
Summary
Family medicine department chairs frequently use mentoring for career development and faculty support. While coaching and sponsoring are less common, training can increase their use, with no gender disparities observed.
Area of Science:
- Academic Medicine
- Faculty Development
- Leadership Studies
Background:
- Coaching, mentoring, and sponsoring are key tools for academic leader development.
- Sponsorship is hypothesized to be particularly beneficial for women in medicine.
- Understanding the utilization of these tools by department chairs is crucial.
Purpose of the Study:
- Assess the extent to which family medicine department chairs benefit from and utilize coaching, mentoring, and sponsoring.
- Compare the experiences of women chairs with sponsorship to their male counterparts.
Main Methods:
- Electronic survey distributed to all US family medicine department chairs.
- Data collected from August 2019 to October 2019.
- Analysis of response rates and reported experiences with career development tools.
Main Results:
- Mentoring was most frequently reported as significant for career development and faculty support.
- Coaching and sponsoring were utilized less frequently by chairs.
- Training in mentoring and sponsoring correlated with increased utilization, unlike coaching.
Conclusions:
- Family medicine department chairs report less experience with coaching and sponsoring compared to mentoring.
- Personal experience with these development tools is linked to increased utilization.
- Formal training may enhance the use of mentoring and sponsoring; no gender differences in sponsorship experiences were found.
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