Table 3.

Agreements With Statements Regarding Mentorship Experience Among 205 Respondents With Mentors in a Survey Measuring 341 Majority and Underrepresented Minority (URM) Physician Faculty Perceptions of Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Diversity Climate, 2004–2005^*

Topic addressed by statement	No. (%) of respondents, unadjusted percent agreement	Percent agreement by race/ethnicity, adjusted by participant characteristics†
		% Majority	% URM	P value
Social issues
Advise you on personal or social matters	65 (31.9)	30.0	37.5	.60
Career development and promotion
Suggest and promote your participation in professional activities that would enhance your visibility outside of Hopkins	158 (77.5)	75.1	91.7	.08
Prospectively advise you about criteria for promotion and your progress toward these criteria	148 (72.5)	72.4	75	.69
Identify obstacles to your career success and facilitate removal of them	125 (61.3)	61.3	62.5	.91
Negotiation skills training
Teach you how to negotiate for salary support	46 (22.6)	21	33.3	.17
Teach you how to negotiate for academic time	57 (27.9)	26.5	37.5	.26
Teach you how to negotiate resources (e.g., office space, clerical support)	65 (31.9)	30.4	41.7	.25

^*Participants were asked to indicate whether any of their mentors engaged in activities as listed/described in the table (response categories: yes/no).

^†Adjusted percentages from multivariate logistic regression represent the frequency of URM and majority faculty agreement with each survey item as if the gender, rank, specialty, and birth status of the URM and majority faculty members were similar.