Secondary Mentoring Program Evaluation

Mass General Brigham

Status: Completed

Conditions: Satisfaction

Treatments: Other: Secondary Mentor; Other: Career Development Resources

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04622163

2020P001561

Details and patient eligibility

About

Mentorship is essential to job satisfaction and promotion among academic physicians, and literature suggests that a single mentor is rarely sufficient. The investigators are studying whether implementation of a secondary mentorship program among physicians at their institution leads to improved job satisfaction over 6 months.

Enrollment: 40 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Physician employed as full-time faculty in the Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Medicine.

Exclusion criteria

None

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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40 participants in 2 patient groups

Secondary Mentor Plus Career Development Resources

Experimental group

Description:

Subjects will be assigned a secondary mentor for 6 months. Subjects will also receive career development resources.

Treatment:

Other: Career Development Resources

Other: Secondary Mentor

Career Development Resources Alone

Other group

Description:

Subjects will not be assigned a secondary mentor. Subjects will receive career development resources only.

Treatment:

Other: Career Development Resources