Table 4.
Participant recommendations for improved mentoring practices.
| Mentorship characteristics∗ | Clinician versus nonclinician† | Career stage‡ | Total (n = 172) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nonclinician (n = 123) | Clinician (n = 45) | M.S. (n = 19) | Ph.D. (n = 56) | Postdoctoral (n = 55) | New investigator§ (n = 18) | ||
| Participants with a signed agreement find it beneficial, %|| | |||||||
| Yes | 52.4 | 66.6 | 60.0 | 55.6 | 44.4 | 50.0 | 55.6 |
| No | 47.6 | 33.3 | 40.0 | 44.4 | 55.6 | 50.0 | 44.4 |
| Missing | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Participants without a signed agreement feel it would be beneficial, %¶ | |||||||
| Yes | 26.5 | 30.8 | 14.3 | 31.9 | 28.3 | 37.5 | 28.2 |
| No | 70.6 | 64.1 | 85.7 | 66.0 | 69.6 | 62.5 | 70.4 |
| Missing | 2.9 | 5.1 | 0.0 | 2.1 | 2.2 | 0.0 | 1.4 |
| Topics participants wish would be discussed that are not currently addressed, % | |||||||
| Administrative | 17.1 | 11.1 | 10.5 | 10.7 | 21.8 | 11.1 | 15.7 |
| Clinical | 8.1 | 8.9 | 15.8 | 5.4 | 7.3 | 11.1 | 8.7 |
| Research | 11.4 | 11.1 | 10.5 | 5.4 | 14.5 | 11.1 | 11.6 |
| Teaching/training | 29.3 | 20.0 | 26.3 | 25.0 | 40.0 | 11.1 | 26.7 |
| Work-life balance | 34.1 | 26.7 | 42.1 | 42.9 | 30.9 | 11.1 | 32.0 |
| Career guidance | 36.6 | 28.9 | 36.8 | 37.5 | 40.0 | 22.2 | 33.7 |
| None of the above | 36.6 | 40.0 | 47.4 | 26.8 | 34.5 | 44.4 | 38.4 |
M.S.: Master's student; Ph.D.: doctoral student. ∗Stratified by clinical background and career stage so that columns are not mutually exclusive. †4 participants did not specify whether or not they were clinicians. ‡24 participants did not specify their career stage or marked their career stage as “other.” §Within 60 months of first academic appointment. || N total = 27. ¶ N total = 142.