Education Pathway
Leadership and Business Training
Career Development Pathway
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.
Presenter: Elaine Schulte, MD, MPH – Children's Hospital at Montefiore - Einstein College of Medicine
Presenter: Nancy D. Spector, MD – Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine and Drexel University College of Medicine
Presenter: Andrea Sikon, MD, BCC – Cleveland Clinic
Presenter: Elaine Schulte, MD, MPH – Children's Hospital at Montefiore - Einstein College of Medicine
Presenter: Corrie E. McDaniel, DO – Seattle Children's Hospital/University of Washington
Presenter: Joseph Gigante, MD – Vanderbilt University Medical Center
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