Evidence Base for Mentoring Women in Academic Medicine

Mentoring in academic medicine: a systematic review.

CONTEXT Mentoring, as a partnership in personal and professional growth and development, is central to academic medicine, but it is challenged by increased clinical, administrative, research, and other educational demands on medical faculty. Therefore, evidence for the value of mentoring needs to be evaluated. OBJECTIVE To systematically review the evidence about the prevalence of mentorship ...

Mentoring programs for physicians in academic medicine: a systematic review.

PURPOSE Mentoring is vital to professional development in the field of medicine, influencing career choice and faculty retention; thus, the authors reviewed mentoring programs for physicians and aimed to identify key components that contribute to these programs' success. METHOD The authors searched the MEDLINE, EMBASE, and Scopus databases for articles from January 2000 through May 2011 that ...

Academic advancement of women in medicine: do socialized gender differences have a role in mentoring?

During the past 30 years, women have entered academic medicine in increasingly larger numbers. However, fewer women than men have succeeded in advancing in academic rank. Despite numerous studies and reports documenting this failure, progress in correcting this problem has been slower than that predicted by even conservative estimates. In 1985, 10% of female medical school faculty held the rank...

Mentoring in academic medicine: A challenging yet rewarding endeavour.

Innovative mentoring programs to promote gender equity in academic medicine.

The authors describe the history, characteristics, and goals of four innovative programs, each in a medical school, that were established in 1998 to help faculty members of both sexes obtain mentors and thereby facilitate their career advancement. The programs were established as the result of an initiative by the Office on Women's Health (OWH) within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Ser...