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Creating and Sustaining Faculty Developmental Networks: Mentoring Models That Work

Chair(s)

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  Elaine Schulte, MD, MPH

  Vice Chair, Academic Affairs and Faculty Development - Professor of Pediatrics
  Children's Hospital at Montefiore - Einstein College of Medicine
  Bronx, New York, United States

Given the current epidemic of faculty burnout, many academic health centers are looking for ways to enhance engagement and provide faculty development. Fostering interpersonal relationships is one individual factor that has been suggested. Developing support networks allow for a sense of collegiality and connection that is increasingly lacking for many faculty. One model of connection that has been used successfully in the past is the traditional mentor-mentee relationship. In this setting, an older, wiser faculty mentor tells the junior mentee what to do based on his or her own interpretations and expertise. Although beneficial, traditional mentoring has its potential limitations including bias and having the mentee feel unheard. To address these limitations and emphasize the value of a support network as more effective than a singular construct, innovative models of peer mentoring have been designed.

During this panel discussion, physician directors of five faculty professional development programs will each describe their program. The first program, established in 1995, is a national/international year long, part-time national fellowship program for women across all disciplines of medicine, as well as dentistry, public health, and pharmacy, who are well established in their scholarship, have a leadership position, and are designated by their dean and other institutional leaders as someone with great leadership potential. The second program began in 2009, and is a health system-wide initiative and incorporates the role of a peer coach blended with multiple mentors across domains of interest. The third program housed in a pediatric department began in 2011 and is a blended model that utilizes a skill development curriculum, along with senior faculty facilitation and small group peer mentorship. The next department-wide program was launched in 2014, and is a mixed peer-and-senior multidisciplinary model that emphasizes group discussion on practical concepts. The final program was established inside a pediatric deparment in 2017, and uses a peer group model where each group consists of 3 mentees, who receive domain-specific mentorship from one mentor and oversight by one coach. All five programs have had sustained success and their various program outcomes will be presented. Audience members will have an opportunity to comment and ask questions following each presentation.

Presentations:

• 4:30 PM - 4:40 PM US CT

  Introduction – Creating and Sustaining Faculty Development Networks: Mentoring Models that Work
  

  Presenter: Elaine Schulte, MD, MPH – Children's Hospital at Montefiore - Einstein College of Medicine
• 4:40 PM - 4:55 PM US CT

  ELAM (Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine): Using a Spectrum of Mentoring Models to Build a Supportive Network
  

  Presenter: Nancy D. Spector, MD – Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine and Drexel University College of Medicine
• 4:55 PM - 5:10 PM US CT

  Building Resilience, Engagement and the Use of Coaching Skills through an Organization-Wide Peer-based Faculty Coaching and Mentoring Program
  

  Presenter: Andrea Sikon, MD, BCC – Cleveland Clinic
• 5:10 PM - 5:25 PM US CT

  Using the ‘Coach Approach’: A Novel Peer Mentorship Program for Pediatric Faculty
  

  Presenter: Elaine Schulte, MD, MPH – Children's Hospital at Montefiore - Einstein College of Medicine
• 5:25 PM - 5:40 PM US CT

  Small Group Mentoring in a Large Group Format: Spanning Silos and Building Bridges to Advance Junior Faculty Professional Development
  

  Presenter: Corrie E. McDaniel, DO – Seattle Children's Hospital/University of Washington
• 5:40 PM - 5:55 PM US CT

  A Facilitated Peer Mentoring Program for Junior Faculty to Promote Professional Development and Peer Networking
  

  Presenter: Joseph Gigante, MD – Vanderbilt University Medical Center
• 5:55 PM - 6:30 PM US CT

  Break
  

  Presenter: Belinda Thomas
• 6:30 PM - 7:00 PM US CT

  Click for Live Q&A: Creating and Sustaining Faculty Developmental Networks: Mentoring Models That Work
  

  Presenter: Belinda Thomas