Background: Promoting scholarship and mentorship among trainees and faculty is important for individual career development. Faculty who mentor trainees in improving scholarship performance, help improve their own academic and professional growth. However, many barriers limit faculty engagement in mentoring trainees, including limited time and lack of accessible resources, institutional/leadership support, formal training, and faculty development/structured […]

Background: Mentorship is a key element of success in physicians’ career advancement, satisfaction, and avoidance of burnout. Conversely, lack of mentorship is a contributor to dissatisfaction, especially among those who leave the field. Mentors act as guides for professional development; there are several benefits of successful mentoring relationships to both parties. While classically enjoyed by […]

Background: Clinical case vignettes (CCVs) help trainees develop academic writing and conference presentation skills while learning clinical reasoning and diagnostic approaches. For hospitalists, CCVs provide academic meeting involvement, scholarly activity, and mentor relationships. Both groups face submission barriers. Heavy clinical burdens may limit hospitalists writing time, whereas students lack case exposure, clinical knowledge and writing […]

Background: 83.3% of Hospital Medicine (HM) groups employ Advanced Practice Providers (APPs).1 However, per a study in Journal of Hospital Medicine APPs are less frequently involved (< 50%) in teaching, research, QI and leadership training suggesting underutilization of APPs in these realms.2 Furthermore, according to 2021 NCCPA data 40.2% of PAs identified professional burnout influenced […]

Background: Scholarship is crucial in academic medicine. However, most URiM medical students don’t feel prepared to engage in scholarly activity, especially due to lack of mentorship. The URiM Mentorship Platform is a peer mentoring platform at the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW), designed to organize collaborative networks and interactions between students and faculty with common […]