Lakshmi Nandini Moorthy1, Eyal Muscal2, Meredith Riebschleger3, Marisa Klein-Gitelman4, Lise E Nigrovic5, Jeffrey R Horon6, Kelly Rouster-Stevens7, Polly J Ferguson8, B Anne Eberhard9, Hermine I Brunner10, Sampath Prahalad11, Rayfel Schneider12, Peter A Nigrovic13. 1. Rutgers University Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, New Jersey. 2. Texas Children's Hospital, Baylor University College of Medicine, Houston. 3. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. 4. Anne & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. 5. Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts. 6. Elsevier Research Intelligence, New York, New York. 7. Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia. 8. University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City. 9. Hofstra-North Shore-Long Island Jewish School of Medicine, North Shore, New York. 10. Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio. 11. Emory University School of Medicine and Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia. 12. University of Toronto and the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 13. Boston Children's Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: The small size of many pediatric rheumatology programs translates into limited mentoring options for early career physicians. To address this problem, the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) and the Childhood Arthritis and Rheumatology Research Alliance (CARRA) developed a subspecialty-wide interinstitutional mentoring program, the ACR/CARRA Mentoring Interest Group (AMIGO). We sought to assess the impact of this program on mentoring within pediatric rheumatology. METHODS: In a longitudinal 3-year study, participant ratings from the AMIGO pilot program were compared with those after the program was opened to general enrollment. Access to mentoring as a function of career stage was assessed by surveys of the US and Canadian pediatric rheumatologists in 2011 and 2014, before and after implementation of AMIGO. RESULTS: Participants in the pilot phase (19 dyads) and the general implementation phase (112 dyads) reported comparable success in establishing mentor contact, suitability of mentor-mentee pairing, and benefit with respect to career development, scholarship, and work-life balance. Community surveys showed that AMIGO participation as mentee was high among fellows (86%) and modest among junior faculty (31%). Implementation correlated with significant gains in breadth of mentorship and in overall satisfaction with mentoring for fellows but not junior faculty. CONCLUSION: AMIGO is a career mentoring program that serves most fellows and many junior faculty in pediatric rheumatology across the US and Canada. Program evaluation data confirm that a subspecialty-wide interinstitutional mentoring program is feasible and can translate into concrete improvement in mentoring, measurable at the level of the whole professional community.
OBJECTIVE: The small size of many pediatric rheumatology programs translates into limited mentoring options for early career physicians. To address this problem, the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) and the Childhood Arthritis and Rheumatology Research Alliance (CARRA) developed a subspecialty-wide interinstitutional mentoring program, the ACR/CARRA Mentoring Interest Group (AMIGO). We sought to assess the impact of this program on mentoring within pediatric rheumatology. METHODS: In a longitudinal 3-year study, participant ratings from the AMIGO pilot program were compared with those after the program was opened to general enrollment. Access to mentoring as a function of career stage was assessed by surveys of the US and Canadian pediatric rheumatologists in 2011 and 2014, before and after implementation of AMIGO. RESULTS:Participants in the pilot phase (19 dyads) and the general implementation phase (112 dyads) reported comparable success in establishing mentor contact, suitability of mentor-mentee pairing, and benefit with respect to career development, scholarship, and work-life balance. Community surveys showed that AMIGO participation as mentee was high among fellows (86%) and modest among junior faculty (31%). Implementation correlated with significant gains in breadth of mentorship and in overall satisfaction with mentoring for fellows but not junior faculty. CONCLUSION: AMIGO is a career mentoring program that serves most fellows and many junior faculty in pediatric rheumatology across the US and Canada. Program evaluation data confirm that a subspecialty-wide interinstitutional mentoring program is feasible and can translate into concrete improvement in mentoring, measurable at the level of the whole professional community.
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