WOMENtorship: The #WomenInMedicine perspective.
Journal Article
Mentorship is essential for career development, personal development, and job satisfaction for physicians in academic medicine. Women in academic medicine face unique challenges including significant gender disparities in positions of leadership as well as difficulty finding mentors. As leaders in academic medicine, we have collated several structured recommendations for physicians of both genders seeking to be better mentors to female trainees and early career physicians. We discuss each of these recommendations in detail including the following: acknowledging your own strengths and limitations as a mentor, addressing issues of work-life integration, helping your mentee set long-term career goals, and acting as a sponsor as well as a mentor. We hope these suggestions are helpful for current and aspiring mentors and provide a platform to improve career development for female physicians and reduce gender inequities in academic medicine.
Full Text
Duke Authors
Cited Authors
- Marshall, AL; Dversdal, RK; Murphy, M; Prill, DM; Zhang, T; Jain, S
Published Date
- February 2020
Published In
Volume / Issue
- 42 / 2
Start / End Page
- 228 - 230
PubMed ID
- 31599174
Pubmed Central ID
- 31599174
Electronic International Standard Serial Number (EISSN)
- 1466-187X
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
- 10.1080/0142159X.2019.1671967
Language
- eng
Conference Location
- England