Addressing Professionalism DEI: The Use of Mentorship and Coaching to Address Unique Differences of URiM's in Medicine
Abstract
Introduction: The unique history within the United States has posed many challenges for POC. As a result, POC have been more susceptible to addressing microaggressions, navigating sensitivities, and needing additional support throughout their academic career. Mentorship is a form of teaching that can significantly enhance the trajectory of a mentee's career when done correctly. For URiM's specifically, it is integral that their needs are taken into consideration when formulating a mentoring curriculum.
Purpose: Our goal is to analyze survey data gathered from the perspective of URiM's to be used to develop a curriculum that highlights their values.
Method: The survey specifically analyzed responses from URiM's where they were asked to rank the following five themes from 1 (most important) to 5 (least important): Engagement, Leadership, Management, Research and Guidance, and Interpersonal Skills.
Results: Participants ranked Interpersonal Skills at the highest, followed by Engagement, and then Leadership, while Research and Guidance were ranked the lowest. This information allows us to implement more communication training and emphasis within the mentorship curriculum.
Future Phases of Project: The next steps of this project are to collect data on a secondary survey that will make curriculum development more specified. With both data sets, we can then implement the mentor curriculum and record post-survey data to then further adjust the curriculum to fit the needs of URiM's.