GOAL:To ensure that all UMMS faculty have access to high quality mentoring Faculty Mentoring at UMMS Robert Milner, PhD University of Massachusetts Medical School

Office of Faculty Affairs: Building Partnerships for Faculty Success | | How can mentoring be made available across a large and diverse academic health center? Strategy:Mentoring across the Continuum – Mentoring at UMMS involves many areas across the continuum of education and training: faculty, students, trainees, staff Approach:pool mentoring knowledge through a campus-wide group of faculty experts – the UMMS Mentoring Advisory Board

Office of Faculty Affairs: Building Partnerships for Faculty Success The Mentoring Advisory Board represents mentoring across the continuum of education & training STUDENT medical graduate nursing FACULTY clinician researcher educator TRAINEES resident/fellow postdoctoral nursing graduate Learning Community Mentors Residency Programs Graduate Programs Postdocs Departmental OFAJFDP K12FDSP Graduate School of Nursing MD/ PhD

Office of Faculty Affairs: Building Partnerships for Faculty Success | | How can mentoring be made available strategically across a large and diverse academic health center? Strategy:Drive Implementation with Data – What is the current status and the future needs for mentoring at UMMS? Approach:conduct a campus-wide needs assessment – the UMMS Mentoring Survey survey administered in Fall 2012 to all faculty, students & trainees at UMMS faculty response rate: ~40%

Office of Faculty Affairs: Building Partnerships for Faculty Success The need for mentoring is largely met for students and trainees but not so much for faculty

Office of Faculty Affairs: Building Partnerships for Faculty Success The OFA uses multiple approaches to enable UMMS faculty to receive mentoring Targeted Programs Partnering with Departments Mentoring Network

Office of Faculty Affairs: Building Partnerships for Faculty Success | | One approach is to target mentoring programs to faculty with particular needs Junior Faculty Development Program (JFDP) junior faculty (curriculum + mentored project) Peers for Promotionfaculty seeking promotion to Associate (facilitated peer mentoring) Pathway to Tenuretenure track faculty (facilitated peer mentoring) Onboarding Programnew faculty (onboarding mentors) Faculty Diversity Scholars Program (FDSP) URM faculty (mentoring teams)

Office of Faculty Affairs: Building Partnerships for Faculty Success A second approach is for the OFA to partner with Departments to develop mentoring programs Departmental Mentoring Programs Office of Faculty Affairs Mentoring Resources Family Medicine & Community Health Pediatrics

Office of Faculty Affairs: Building Partnerships for Faculty Success A further challenge: the majority of faculty who need a mentor don’t know how to find one “Do you know how to find a mentor?” UMW Mentoring Survey 2012 Andrieni, Barton & Milner

Office of Faculty Affairs: Building Partnerships for Faculty Success A third approach—the UMMS Mentoring Network— guides faculty through steps to Find a Mentor Define their needs for mentoring Identify mentors with appropriate expertise Establish & maintain a mentoring relationship Step 1 Step 2 Step 3

Office of Faculty Affairs: Building Partnerships for Faculty Success Faculty can use the Mentoring Network in three ways: web, workshops, and consultations 1.Online Resources Mentoring/FindMentor/ 2.Find a Mentor Workshops 3.Mentoring Consultations

Office of Faculty Affairs: Building Partnerships for Faculty Success | | Faculty Mentoring: challenges and next steps Stimulating faculty engagement in the Mentoring Network Educating faculty to be more effective mentors Tracking and evaluating the programs Questions & Discussion

Office of Faculty Affairs: Building Partnerships for Faculty Success | | Acknowledgements: UMMS Office of Faculty Affairs Luanne Thorndyke Joanna Cain John Congdon Judy Ockene Office of Faculty Affairs programs and initiatives are supported in part by an Award for Faculty Career Flexibility from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in collaboration with the American Council on Education