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The Significance of Mentorship

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In this chapter, we highlight the importance of mentorship in the pursuit of a career in academic medicine, describe the role of mentors, sponsors and coaches/advisors, provide evidence-based tools to help you identify a mentor and establish effective mentoring relationships, and discuss the key components that are essential in the maintenance of a mentor-mentee relationship. We end this chapter with a discussion of the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) and Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) mandates on mentorship as a requirement for all accredited medical training institutions. We present you with a description of potential challenges that mentor-mentee relationships may face. Lastly, we discuss the cycle of mentorship for the purpose of expanding growth and the constant support to students interested in academic medicine.

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  1. Center for Surgery and Public Health, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

    Gezzer Ortega

  2. Center for Surgery and Public Health, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

    Margaret S. Pichardo

  3. Howard University College of Medicine, Washington, DC, USA

    Margaret S. Pichardo

  4. Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, USA

    Margaret S. Pichardo

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  1. President, Building the Next Generation of Academic Physicians Inc., Executive Director, Latino Medical Student Association Inc., New York, NY, USA

    John P. Sánchez

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Ortega, G., Pichardo, M.S. (2020). The Significance of Mentorship. In: Sánchez, J. (eds) Succeeding in Academic Medicine. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33267-9_7

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