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Training mentors of clinical and translational research scholars: a randomized controlled trial.


ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To determine whether a structured mentoring curriculum improves research mentoring skills.

Method

The authors conducted a randomized controlled trial (RCT) at 16 academic health centers (June 2010 to July 2011). Faculty mentors of trainees who were conducting clinical/translational research ≥50% of the time were eligible. The intervention was an eight-hour, case-based curriculum focused on six mentoring competencies. The primary outcome was the change in mentors' self-reported pretest to posttest composite scores on the Mentoring Competency Assessment (MCA). Secondary outcomes included changes in the following: mentors' awareness as measured by their self-reported retrospective change in MCA scores, mentees' ratings of their mentors' competency as measured by MCA scores, and mentoring behaviors as reported by mentors and their mentees.

Results

A total of 283 mentor-mentee pairs were enrolled: 144 mentors were randomized to the intervention; 139 to the control condition. Self-reported pre-/posttest change in MCA composite scores was higher for mentors in the intervention group compared with controls (P < .001). Retrospective changes in MCA composite scores between the two groups were even greater, and extended to all six subscale scores (P < .001). More intervention-group mentors reported changes in their mentoring practices than control mentors (P < .001). Mentees working with intervention-group mentors reported larger changes in retrospective MCA pre-/posttest scores (P = .003) and more changes in their mentors' behavior (P = .002) than those paired with control mentors.

Conclusions

This RCT demonstrates that a competency-based research mentor training program can improve mentors' skills.

SUBMITTER: Pfund C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4121731 | biostudies-literature | 2014 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Training mentors of clinical and translational research scholars: a randomized controlled trial.

Pfund Christine C   House Stephanie C SC   Asquith Pamela P   Fleming Michael F MF   Buhr Kevin A KA   Burnham Ellen L EL   Eichenberger Gilmore Julie M JM   Huskins W Charles WC   McGee Richard R   Schurr Kathryn K   Shapiro Eugene D ED   Spencer Kimberly C KC   Sorkness Christine A CA  

Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 20140501 5


<h4>Purpose</h4>To determine whether a structured mentoring curriculum improves research mentoring skills.<h4>Method</h4>The authors conducted a randomized controlled trial (RCT) at 16 academic health centers (June 2010 to July 2011). Faculty mentors of trainees who were conducting clinical/translational research ≥50% of the time were eligible. The intervention was an eight-hour, case-based curriculum focused on six mentoring competencies. The primary outcome was the change in mentors' self-repo  ...[more]

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