Suggested goals for mentoring new faculty/new physicians
At a recent workshop, the following topics were suggested for mentoring new medical faculty/new physicians:
- Decrease future problems so your workload not increased
- Prophylaxis is better than Tx
- A welcoming supporting start might recruit colleagues from residency
- “Indoctrinate” persuade local way of doing things
- Orienting quickly to the system good (efficient) clinical care
- Paying forward the debt from my teachers
- Retention in our regions
- If I was involved in recruiting them, my reputation hinges somewhat on their success
- Help new person feel there is a contact person to go to when you don’t know something about the system. Its hard to admit one doesn’t know something
- Be specific about when to meet; invite them next Tuesday for lunch or regular intervals
- Get to know personal details about their background and skills and outline the plan for this relationship
- Other persons’ expertise and get to know how do they do things where they are from
- Identify potential stresses pick up vulnerabilities early and look into preventative strategies e.g. orient new faculty to local expertise in research strategies
- Practical aspects of how to get a faculty appointment and advantages of having vs. not having an appointment FOR THEM. A mentor’s role is one of exploring IF this is a good thing or not selling them on it