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. 2007 Jan 5;22(2):210–214. doi: 10.1007/s11606-006-0051-x

Table 3.

Overview of Multiple Mentors

  Assistant professors Associate professors
Number of mentors Number of mentors
0 (n = 38) 1 (n = 209) 2+ (n = 224) χ2 (P)* 0 (n = 139) 1 (n = 86) 2+ (n = 43) χ2 (P)*
Percentage of all possible types of mentoring received - Mean (SD) 25 (18) 43 (18) 51 (18) 59.6 (<.0001) 25 (4) 42 (17) 55 (16) 94.85 (.0001)
Job satisfaction [mean (SD)] 6.2 (1.8) 6.7 (2.0) 7.3 (1.7) 17.7 (.0001) 6.8 (1.7) 7.2 (1.7) 7.7 (1.3) 10.3 (.0057)
Satisfaction with mentoring (mean(sd)) 3.5 (2.8) 6.3 (2.9) 7.4 (2.3) 42.8 (.0001) 3.2 (2.4) 6.8 (2.8) 7.3 (2.6) 74.35 (.0001)
Expect to leave within 5 years (%) 58 44 38 5.78 (.06) 33 28 26 1.20 (.55)
Faculty gender
Men (%) 8 47 45 3.43 (.18) 56 30 14 6.77 (.03)
Women (%) 9 38 53 39 38 23
Faculty track
Clinician–Educator (%) 11 45 44 20.04 (.0005) 49 36 15 6.67 (.15)
Tenure track (%) 2 40 58 58 20 22
Research track—% 13 51 36 50 37 13

*Chi square resulting from either comparing percentages in a cross-tabulation or a Kruskal–Wallace non–parametric comparison of means.