3300 - Fostering sustainable inter-institutional peer mentorship groups to support your career goals

Monday, April 25, 2022

10:00 AM – 11:30 AM US MT

Location: Convention Center: 102/104

CE: Live CME: 1.5

Course Number: 3300

Leader(s)

Kathryn Kyler, MD, MS

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Hospital Medicine
Children's Mercy Hospitals and Clinics
Kansas City, Missouri, United States

Co-Leader(s)

Kathryn Kyler, MD, MS

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Hospital Medicine
Children's Mercy Hospitals and Clinics
Kansas City, Missouri, United States
Jillian Cotter, MD, MSCS

Pediatric Hospitalist
University of Colorado School of Medicine
Denver, Colorado, United States
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John Morrison, MD, PhD (he/him/his)

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Office of Medical Education
Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital
Saint Petersburg, Florida, United States
Sonya Tang Girdwood, MD, PhD (she/her/hers)

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Pediatrics
Cincinnati Children' Hospital Medical Center
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
Mike Tchou, MD, MSc (he/him/his)

Assistant Professor
Pediatrics
University of Colorado Anschutz and Children's Hospital of Colorado
Aurora, Colorado, United States
Nathaniel Bayer, MD (he/him/his)

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Pediatrics
Golisano Children's Hospital at The University of Rochester Medical Center
Rochester, New York, United States

Participants should be aware of the following financial/non-financial relationships:

Kathryn Kyler, MD, MS: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Jillian M. Cotter, MD, MSCS: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

John M. Morrison, MD, PhD: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Sonya Tang Girdwood, MD, PhD: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Michael J. Tchou, MD, MSc: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Nathaniel D. Bayer, MD: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Peer mentorship is critical to foster personal and professional growth of physicians throughout their careers. Compared to traditional hierarchical mentorship, peer mentorship among individuals at equal career stages promotes professional and personal development, particularly for women and underrepresented groups in medicine, while reducing burn out and boosting morale. Peer mentorship groups create a space of psychological safety allowing for open discussion of challenges and shared experiences.

While the COVID-19 pandemic has presented challenges to peer mentorship groups by limiting in-person interactions, it provided new opportunities to include members from multiple institutions through virtual meetings. Inter-institutional membership diversifies experiences and perspectives, while allowing groups to prioritize mutually relevant topics (i.e., writing a career development award, working from home) which may be difficult to achieve in smaller institutions or divisions. Inter-institutional peer mentorship also creates an opportunity to build a diverse and inclusive multi-institutional network of peers to support future career progress including collaborative scholarship projects, speaking invitations, and generating national recognition necessary for academic promotion.

In this interactive workshop, the leaders will review different peer mentorship structures, share strategies to implement sustainable inter- and intra-institutional peer mentorship groups, and provide a structured planning toolkit and supporting resources to assist participants with designing a peer mentorship plan of their own. In the three small group sessions, participants will share their experiences with peer mentorship, reflect on individual goals and challenges that are most likely to benefit from peer mentorship, and develop an actionable plan to create and sustain a peer mentorship group.