GOAL: To ensure that all UMMS faculty have access to high quality mentoring

Faculty Mentoring at UMMS

Robert Milner, PhDUniversity of Massachusetts

Medical School

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How can mentoring be made available acrossa large and diverse academic health center?

Strategy: Mentoring across the Continuum– Mentoring at UMMS involves many areas across the

continuum of education and training:faculty, students, trainees, staff

Approach: pool mentoring knowledge through a campus-wide group of faculty experts

– the UMMS Mentoring Advisory Board

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The Mentoring Advisory Board represents mentoring across the continuum of education & training

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postdoctoralnursing graduate

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Mentors

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K12 FDSPGraduate School of Nursing

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How can mentoring be made available strategicallyacross a large and diverse academic health center?

Strategy: Drive Implementation with Data– What is the current status and the future needs for

mentoring at UMMS?

Approach: conduct a campus-wide needs assessment– the UMMS Mentoring Survey

• survey administered in Fall 2012 to all faculty, students & trainees at UMMS

• faculty response rate: ~40%

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The need for mentoring is largely met for students and trainees but not so much for faculty

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The OFA uses multiple approaches to enableUMMS faculty to receive mentoring

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Partnering withDepartments Mentoring

Network

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One approach is to target mentoring programs to faculty with particular needs

Junior Faculty Development Program (JFDP)

junior faculty(curriculum + mentored project)

Peers for Promotion faculty seeking promotion to Associate (facilitated peer mentoring)

Pathway to Tenure tenure track faculty(facilitated peer mentoring)

Onboarding Program new faculty(onboarding mentors)

Faculty Diversity Scholars Program (FDSP)

URM faculty(mentoring teams)

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A second approach is for the OFA to partner with Departments to develop mentoring programs

Departmental Mentoring Programs

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Mentoring Resources

Family Medicine & Community Health

Pediatrics

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A further challenge: the majority of faculty who need a mentor don’t know how to find one

“Do you know how to find a mentor?”UMW Mentoring Survey 2012

Andrieni, Barton & Milner

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A third approach—the UMMS Mentoring Network—guides faculty through steps to Find a Mentor

Define their needs for mentoring

Identify mentors with appropriate expertise

Establish & maintain a mentoring relationship

Step 1

Step 2

Step 3

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Faculty can use the Mentoring Network in three ways: web, workshops, and consultations

1. Online Resources

http://www.umassmed.edu/ofa/Mentoring/FindMentor/

2. Find a MentorWorkshops

3. MentoringConsultations

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Faculty Mentoring: challenges and next steps

Stimulating faculty engagement in the Mentoring Network

Educating faculty to be more effective mentors

Tracking and evaluating the programs

Questions & Discussion

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Acknowledgements:UMMS Office of Faculty Affairs

Luanne ThorndykeJoanna CainJohn CongdonJudy Ockene

Office of Faculty Affairs programs and initiatives are supported in part by an Award for Faculty Career Flexibility from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in collaboration with the American Council on Education