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Faculty Mentoring at UCSF

Learn about the importance and benefits of faculty mentoring at UCSF, including one-on-one mentorship, mentor roles, and program goals. Discover how the program aims to support faculty recruitment, retention, and recognition.

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Faculty Mentoring at UCSF

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  1. Faculty Mentoring at UCSF Mitchell D Feldman, MD, MPhil Professor of Medicine Director of Faculty Mentoring

  2. UCSF Faculty Climate Survey • Only 58% of faculty reported that they received mentoring since coming to UCSF. • Most of these had found their own mentor. • About 1/3 of faculty satisfied with mentoring available to them. • 1 in 8 felt that UCSF did a good job providing formal mentoring.

  3. Academic Senate Mentoring Task Force • Mentoring programs should be established with eventual target of all UCSF faculty • One-on-one mentoring should be the core function of the departmental program • Mentoring facilitators appointed in each department • Central mentoring office should be established to develop standardized training, resources and evaluation material

  4. What is Mentoring? • The story of Mentor comes from Homer's Odyssey. “Mentor was the union of both goal and path, wisdom personified.” (Daloz, 1983). • Socrates and Plato, Hayden and Beethoven, Freud and Jung. • Mentoring is a process where mentor and mentee work together to discover and develop the mentee's abilities. It is the empowerment of the mentee by developing his or her abilities.

  5. What is Mentoring “The effective mentoring relationship facilitates the formulation and ‘realization of a persons own dream’ through an evolution of personal growth.” • Linda Pololi

  6. Mentoring • Junior-senior partnership • Implied long term relationship • Mentors can advise, but advisors aren’t necessarily mentors

  7. Advisor • Assigned • Monitor progress • Available as resource • May turn into a mentoring relationship

  8. Mentor as Teacher • Educate mentee about research content and methods • Clinical and teaching skills • Grant and manuscript preparation

  9. Mentor as Protector • Mentor as Superhero • Powerful Advocate • Advancement, Promotion and Recognition • Protector

  10. Mentor as Role Model • A person considered as a standard of excellence to be imitated (Wright, et al)

  11. Mentor as Advisor and Guide • ‘a trusted counselor or guide’ • Work-Life Balance • Value Clarification • Well-being

  12. Types of Mentoring • One on One Mentoring • Long term commitment • Mentoring lite (mini-mentoring) • (may ‘taste great’, but it’s less ‘fulfilling’) • Length of commitment and scope is defined • Long-Distance mentoring • Peer or Group mentoring

  13. Faculty Mentoring at UCSF: Mission and Vision • The Vision: • To be the national center of excellence for mentoring in the health sciences. • The Mission: • All UCSF faculty feel supported in their pursuit of a satisfying and successful career.

  14. Goals: The 3 Rs • Recruitment • Retention • Recognition

  15. Recruitment • Lack of robust and consistent mentoring may deter successful recruitment of a diverse faculty. • A successful program will directly enhance recruitment • Woman and underrep. minorities

  16. Retention • A robust mentoring program will enhance opportunities for advancement in profession and at UCSF • Promote personal/professional balance

  17. Recognition • Mentoring required for advancement/promotion at UCSF • Mentoring awards • Mentors Circle (Chancellors Award)

  18. Who needs mentoring? • We all do! • Our primary targets • Assistant level faculty • New faculty • Faculty “in trouble” • Ultimately include all faculty--integrated with program for fellows/post-docs

  19. Assistant Faculty at UCSF (10/05) • SOM = 765 • DOM = 203 • Anesth/periop care = 80 • Pediatrics = 63 • SOD = 67 (30 in Prev/Restorative Sciences) • SON = 45 (18 in physiological nursing) • SOP - 32 (19 in clinical pharmacy) Grand Total = 927

  20. Other Faculty • New Faculty • Integrate with faculty welcoming • Faculty “in trouble” • Identify faculty early so they can be put back on track • Provide feedback--not wait for evaluation

  21. UCSF Faculty Mentoring Program • Guiding Principle: Provide strong central structure, resources and leadership while allowing for local innovation and flexibility. • Based in School/Department/Division • Build on existing programs and expertise

  22. UCSF Faculty Mentoring Program:Core Components • UCSF Director of Faculty Mentoring • Establish and oversee program • UCSF Mentoring Advisory Board • One on One mentoring program • All junior faculty paired with senior mentor • Multiple mentors/serial mentors • Mentoring Facilitators • Responsible for setting up and overseeing mentoring program in Dept/Division • Dedicated time

  23. UCSF Faculty Mentoring Program:Core Components • Core Curriculum • Workshops and seminars for mentees and mentors • How to be an effective mentor, mentee • CV preparation • Manuscript preparation and submission • Obtaining funding • Work/life balance

  24. UCSF Faculty Mentoring Program:Core Components • Evaluation • Inputs, process and outcomes • Mentoring Program Web Site • Links to other mentoring activities on campus • Mentoring Resources • Other • Peer Mentoring • Group Mentoring

  25. How will we assess success?

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