NCRR ARRA Development-Workforce Development

University of Wisconsin (UW)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Research Mentoring Skills

Treatments: Other: Mentor Training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT01184131

3UL1RR025011-03S2 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

H-2009-0146

Details and patient eligibility

About

The research proposed in this collaborative application Implementation and Evaluation of Formal Training for Mentors of K-Series Mentored Career Development Awards will uniquely study mentor training in the biomedical academic community. The randomized controlled trial will be conducted at 15 Clinical and Translational Science Award sites over a 21-month period with six months for baseline data collection, nine months for the intervention, three months for follow-up, and three months for analysis. The multi-site trial will be conducted to determine whether the resultant skills-focused, case-based, mentor training program can improve the mentoring skills of K series mentors.

Full description

The trial will be conducted over a 21-month period with six months for baseline data collection, nine months for the intervention, three months for follow-up, and three months for analysis. The trial will be conducted to determine whether the resultant skills-focused, case-based, mentor training program can improve the mentoring skills of K series mentors. Our modified Wisconsin Mentoring Seminar Curriculum will consist of four 2-hour sessions administered within an 8-week period, using trained facilitators. Scholars will include all recipients of a K-Series Award at the 3 CTSA sites (e.g., K01, K08, K12, K23, K24, K99, KL2), who will be funded during the two-year cycle of this Administrative Supplement. We will randomly assign 300 K-award mentors of these scholars to a control group (n=150) or to the experimental intervention (n=150).

Enrollment: 300 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Mentor of junior faculty, post doc or PhD student engaged in clinical or translational research Willingness to attend mentor training if assigned to intervention arm

Exclusion criteria

Trial design

300 participants in 2 patient groups

Mentor Training

Experimental group

Description:

The group that is randomized into the intervention group to attend Mentor Training Sessions.

Treatment:

Other: Mentor Training

No Mentor Training

No Intervention group