Personality Compatibility Within Faculty Mentoring Dyads and Perceived Mentoring Outcomes: Survey Results of Academic Medicine Institutions in the USA

Mentorship is recognized as a critical approach to support successful careers in academic medicine. Obstacles to successful mentoring relationships include difficulty finding appropriate mentors and poor alignment of mentee/mentor interests and goals. We set out to investigate if concordance or disc...

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Published inMedical science educator Vol. 31; no. 2; pp. 345 - 348
Main Authors Wulf, Karyn, Borges, Nicole, Huggett, Kathryn, Blanco, Maria, Binkley, Philip, Moore-Clingenpeel, Melissa, Hurtubise, Larry
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York Springer US 01.04.2021
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Education
Medical Education
Short Communication
Faculty
Big Five Personality Inventory
Personality
Academic medicine
Mentoring
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Summary:Mentorship is recognized as a critical approach to support successful careers in academic medicine. Obstacles to successful mentoring relationships include difficulty finding appropriate mentors and poor alignment of mentee/mentor interests and goals. We set out to investigate if concordance or discordance in personality traits of mentees and mentors impacts perceived success of mentoring relationships. Our findings indicated that concordance and discordance on one personality trait, neuroticism, seemed to significantly impact the perceived mentoring relationship success related to career progression. Further work to refine criteria for matching mentees and mentors considering personality traits may impact the effectiveness of mentoring relationships.
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ISSN:2156-8650
2156-8650
DOI:10.1007/s40670-020-01191-w