Faculty Mentoring at UCSF

Mitchell D Feldman, MD, MPhil

Professor of Medicine

Director of Faculty Mentoring

UCSF Faculty Climate Survey

• Only 58% of faculty reported that they received mentoring since coming to UCSF.

• Most of these had found their own mentor.

• About 1/3 of faculty satisfied with mentoring available to them.

• 1 in 8 felt that UCSF did a good job providing formal mentoring.

Academic Senate Mentoring Task Force

• Mentoring programs should be established with eventual target of all UCSF faculty

• One-on-one mentoring should be the core function of the departmental program

• Mentoring facilitators appointed in each department• Central mentoring office should be established to

develop standardized training, resources and evaluation material

What is Mentoring?

The story of Mentor comes from Homer's Odyssey. “Mentor was the union of both goal and path, wisdom personified.” (Daloz, 1983).

Socrates and Plato, Hayden and Beethoven, Freud and Jung.

Mentoring is a process where mentor and mentee work together to discover and develop the mentee's abilities. It is the empowerment of the mentee by developing his or her abilities.

What is Mentoring

“The effective mentoring relationship facilitates the formulation and ‘realization of a persons own dream’ through an evolution of personal growth.”

» Linda Pololi

Mentoring

• Junior-senior partnership

• Implied long term relationship

• Mentors can advise, but advisors aren’t necessarily mentors

Advisor

• Assigned

• Monitor progress

• Available as resource

• May turn into a mentoring relationship

Mentor as Teacher

• Educate mentee about research content and methods

• Clinical and teaching skills

• Grant and manuscript preparation

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Mentor as Protector

• Mentor as Superhero• Powerful Advocate• Advancement,

Promotion and Recognition

• Protector

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Mentor as Role Model

• A person considered as a standard of excellence to be imitated (Wright, et al)

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Mentor as Advisor and Guide

• ‘a trusted counselor or guide’

• Work-Life Balance• Value Clarification• Well-being

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Types of Mentoring

• One on One Mentoring– Long term commitment

• Mentoring lite (mini-mentoring)– (may ‘taste great’, but it’s less ‘fulfilling’)– Length of commitment and scope is defined

• Long-Distance mentoring• Peer or Group mentoring

Faculty Mentoring at UCSF: Mission and Vision

• The Vision:– To be the national center of excellence for

mentoring in the health sciences.

• The Mission:– All UCSF faculty feel supported in their pursuit

of a satisfying and successful career.

Goals: The 3 Rs

• Recruitment

• Retention

• Recognition

Recruitment

• Lack of robust and consistent mentoring may deter successful recruitment of a diverse faculty.

• A successful program will directly enhance recruitment– Woman and underrep. minorities

Retention

• A robust mentoring program will enhance opportunities for advancement in profession and at UCSF

• Promote personal/professional balance

Recognition

• Mentoring required for advancement/promotion at UCSF

• Mentoring awards

• Mentors Circle (Chancellors Award)

Who needs mentoring?

• We all do!

• Our primary targets– Assistant level faculty – New faculty– Faculty “in trouble”

• Ultimately include all faculty--integrated with program for fellows/post-docs

Assistant Faculty at UCSF (10/05)

• SOM = 765– DOM = 203

– Anesth/periop care = 80

– Pediatrics = 63

• SOD = 67 (30 in Prev/Restorative Sciences)• SON = 45 (18 in physiological nursing)• SOP - 32 (19 in clinical pharmacy)

Grand Total = 927

Other Faculty

• New Faculty– Integrate with faculty welcoming

• Faculty “in trouble”– Identify faculty early so they can be put back

on track– Provide feedback--not wait for evaluation

UCSF Faculty Mentoring Program

Guiding Principle: Provide strong central structure, resources and leadership while allowing for local innovation and flexibility.

Based in School/Department/Division

Build on existing programs and expertise

UCSF Faculty Mentoring Program:Core Components

• UCSF Director of Faculty Mentoring– Establish and oversee program– UCSF Mentoring Advisory Board

• One on One mentoring program– All junior faculty paired with senior mentor– Multiple mentors/serial mentors

• Mentoring Facilitators– Responsible for setting up and overseeing mentoring program

in Dept/Division– Dedicated time

UCSF Faculty Mentoring Program:Core Components

• Core Curriculum– Workshops and seminars for mentees and mentors– How to be an effective mentor, mentee– CV preparation – Manuscript preparation and submission– Obtaining funding– Work/life balance

UCSF Faculty Mentoring Program:Core Components

• Evaluation– Inputs, process and outcomes

• Mentoring Program Web Site– Links to other mentoring activities on campus– Mentoring Resources

• Other– Peer Mentoring– Group Mentoring

How will we assess success?