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Basics of faculty-to-faculty mentoring: A process to identify support and challenges
Faculty mentoring is relatively new in health sciences literature. Faculty mentors are considered to have multiple roles including being a supervisor, teacher, or a coach. Little or no attention to formal mentoring of faculty allows faculty to seek informal mentoring, creating a risk of unexpected o...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10263330/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37310981 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0287127 |
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author | Zehra, Tabassum Tariq, Muhammed Rehman, Rehana Zuberi, Rukhsana W. |
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description | Faculty mentoring is relatively new in health sciences literature. Faculty mentors are considered to have multiple roles including being a supervisor, teacher, or a coach. Little or no attention to formal mentoring of faculty allows faculty to seek informal mentoring, creating a risk of unexpected outcome. There is dearth of literature with respect to formal mentoring programs from the subcontinent. Although, informal faculty mentoring has been in place but there is no standard faculty mentorship model to be followed at Aga Khan University Medical College (AKU-MC). An observational study was conducted in September 2021 at AKU MC with convenient sampling to share the perceptions of the AKU-MC faculty mentors in a faculty mentorship workshop so that further advanced level faculty development workshops could be planned in this area. Twenty-two faculty mentors participated to share their perspectives on the responsibilities of faculty mentor, faculty mentee and the institution to see faculty grow and to have a sustainable mentorship programme. Challenges faced by the faculty mentors during the process of mentorship were also discussed. Majority of the participants emphasized on the role of the faculty mentor to be supportive, guiding, reflective and formative (respond to the emotional needs, encourage, effective communication, know own limitations, observe, provide feedback). Faculty mentor role modeling, ability to maintain confidentiality, creating and maintaining mentor-mentee relationship, availability of framework of formal mentoring in an academic institution and opportunities within the academic setting to learn mentorship were the main challenges of being a faculty mentor. The process provided valuable training and education to the faculty for the development and strengthening of formal mentoring program. Faculty recommended that institutions should provide the opportunity for development of junior faculty mentors by organizing capacity building activities. |
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spelling | pubmed-102633302023-06-15 Basics of faculty-to-faculty mentoring: A process to identify support and challenges Zehra, Tabassum Tariq, Muhammed Rehman, Rehana Zuberi, Rukhsana W. PLoS One Research Article Faculty mentoring is relatively new in health sciences literature. Faculty mentors are considered to have multiple roles including being a supervisor, teacher, or a coach. Little or no attention to formal mentoring of faculty allows faculty to seek informal mentoring, creating a risk of unexpected outcome. There is dearth of literature with respect to formal mentoring programs from the subcontinent. Although, informal faculty mentoring has been in place but there is no standard faculty mentorship model to be followed at Aga Khan University Medical College (AKU-MC). An observational study was conducted in September 2021 at AKU MC with convenient sampling to share the perceptions of the AKU-MC faculty mentors in a faculty mentorship workshop so that further advanced level faculty development workshops could be planned in this area. Twenty-two faculty mentors participated to share their perspectives on the responsibilities of faculty mentor, faculty mentee and the institution to see faculty grow and to have a sustainable mentorship programme. Challenges faced by the faculty mentors during the process of mentorship were also discussed. Majority of the participants emphasized on the role of the faculty mentor to be supportive, guiding, reflective and formative (respond to the emotional needs, encourage, effective communication, know own limitations, observe, provide feedback). Faculty mentor role modeling, ability to maintain confidentiality, creating and maintaining mentor-mentee relationship, availability of framework of formal mentoring in an academic institution and opportunities within the academic setting to learn mentorship were the main challenges of being a faculty mentor. The process provided valuable training and education to the faculty for the development and strengthening of formal mentoring program. Faculty recommended that institutions should provide the opportunity for development of junior faculty mentors by organizing capacity building activities. Public Library of Science 2023-06-13 /pmc/articles/PMC10263330/ /pubmed/37310981 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0287127 Text en © 2023 Zehra et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Zehra, Tabassum Tariq, Muhammed Rehman, Rehana Zuberi, Rukhsana W. Basics of faculty-to-faculty mentoring: A process to identify support and challenges |
title | Basics of faculty-to-faculty mentoring: A process to identify support and challenges |
title_full | Basics of faculty-to-faculty mentoring: A process to identify support and challenges |
title_fullStr | Basics of faculty-to-faculty mentoring: A process to identify support and challenges |
title_full_unstemmed | Basics of faculty-to-faculty mentoring: A process to identify support and challenges |
title_short | Basics of faculty-to-faculty mentoring: A process to identify support and challenges |
title_sort | basics of faculty-to-faculty mentoring: a process to identify support and challenges |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10263330/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37310981 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0287127 |
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