Journal
CTS-CLINICAL AND TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCE
Volume 6, Issue 1, Pages 26-33Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1111/cts.12009
Keywords
mentoring; faculty development; evaluation
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Funding
- Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) program
- National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) [1UL1RR025011]
- National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) [UL1TR000427]
- Division Of Undergraduate Education
- Direct For Education and Human Resources [1231286] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Purpose To design and evaluate a research mentor training curriculum for clinical and translational researchers. The resulting 8-hour curriculum was implemented as part of a national mentor training trial. Method The mentor training curriculum was implemented with 144 mentors at 16 academic institutions. Facilitators of the curriculum participated in a train-the-trainer workshop to ensure uniform delivery. The data used for this report were collected from participants during the training sessions through reflective writing, and following the last training session via confidential survey with a 94% response rate. Results A total of 88% of respondents reported high levels of satisfaction with the training experience, and 90% noted they would recommend the training to a colleague. Participants also reported significant learning gains across six mentoring competencies as well as specific impacts of the training on their mentoring practice. Conclusions The data suggest the described research mentor training curriculum is an effective means of engaging research mentors to reflect upon and improve their research mentoring practices. The training resulted in high satisfaction, self-reported skill gains as well as behavioral changes of clinical and translational research mentors. Given success across 16 diverse sites, this training may serve as a national model. Clin Trans Sci 2013; Volume 6: 2633
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