Source: Medical Teacher
Date of Publication: May 2014
In a nutshell: Researchers from St Michael’s Hospital in Canada, the University of Toronto and the University of Washington in the U.S. studied the effects of mentoring on young academics. The university they studied introduced a formal mentoring programme in 2003 and the researchers compared 382 academics appointed before then with 229 appointed afterwards. They found that academics appointed after 2003 were promoted, on average, 1.2 years earlier than those appointed before the mentoring programme started and the mentoring programme had beneficial effects on academics of both sexes.
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