Table 1.

Attitudes of Internal Medicine Program Directors Regarding Mentoring in Residency^*

	Strongly Disagree	Disagree	Neutral	Agree	Strongly Agree
	%
a.Mentorship is an important tool for career/professional development	2	1	6	53	38
b.Program directors have a responsibility to encourage faculty to mentor residents	1	1	6	47	45
c.It is important for a resident to have a mentor during training	1	1	19	47	32
d.Program directors have a responsibility to encourage residents to identify a mentor	2	4	21	47	25
e.Program directors have a responsibility to identify mentors for residents	4	9	21	45	20
f.Residency programs should have structured mentoring programs for residents	3	11	25	40	21

^*Responses were made on a 5-point scale: 1 = strongly disagree, 2 = disagree, 3 = neutral, 4 = agree, and 5 = strongly agree.