The Impact of Same Gender Speed-Mentoring on Women's Perceptions of a Career in Surgery – A Prospective Cohort Study

• DOI: 10.1016/j.jsurg.2022.05.014
• Publication Date: 2022-06-09T21:23:58Z
• Authors: Maria Georgi; Naomi Morka; Sonam Patel; Danny Kazzazi; Khimi Karavadra; Arjun Nathan; Gillian Hardman; Janice Tsui
• Keywords: Male; Mentors; Internship and Residency; Mentoring; Women in surgery; 16. Peace & justice; 03 medical and health sciences; 0302 clinical medicine; Speed- mentoring; 5. Gender equality; Diversity in surgery; Humans; Female; Prospective Studies; 10. No inequality; Program Evaluation

Mentoring is critically important for the personal and professional development of a surgeon. Early career stage mentoring by same-gender role models may help ameliorate gender imbalance in surgery based on our understanding barriers women pursuing surgical careers. A novel method establishing these relationships speed mentoring. This study aims to examine impact one-day speed-mentoring session with same mentors cohort's perceptions surgery.This prospective pre-post compared attitudes before after female surgeons. Mentees were assigned into groups 1 or 2 paired surgeon 8 minutes. Each mentee group then rotated another mentor amount time this process continued total twelve sessions. completed 19-point questionnaire intervention.This multicenter included participants from across United Kingdom.Inclusion criteria medical student foundation year doctor (internship 2) status. Three hundred forty participated intervention, 191 analysis.Following percentage who agreed that having family would negatively woman's progression significantly decreased 46.6% 23.0%. The an "old boys' club" attitude exists also (73.8%-58.1%). it was more difficult woman succeed her than man (73.8%-64.9%). One eighty-three (96%) mentorship 153 (71.2%) stated they did not have someone considered mentor.Conducting program changed students' junior doctors' surgery. results suggest such programs be effective tools facilitating mentor-mentee could employed organizations encourage diverse uptake