Faculty Mentoring

Focus on Intersectionality, Team Mentoring, and Faculty Vitality

The AEM Program for faculty advancement incorporates emerging concepts such as intersectionality to meet the multi-dimensional needs of diverse faculty and team mentoring to grow both mentors and mentees. Focus of the program includes faculty vitality and longitudinal learning communities of practice for women faculty, clinical educators, faculty administrators and emerging leaders (Chairs/Chiefs). 

Rutgers NJMS AEM program was established to support the goal of retention of diverse faculty, while promoting faculty vitality, professional growth and satisfaction.  Through AEM, we hope to improve faculty satisfaction, improve confidence in one’s ability to advance and increase leadership aspirations and skills for both individual and institutional success.

The AEM Program incorporates concepts such as:

• Intersectionality to meet the multi-faceted needs of diverse faculty
• Parallel growth of both mentors and mentees and targeted programs for mentor development
• “Team mentoring”: peer mentor, discipline mentor, project mentor, career and vitality coach
• Functional mentoring and faculty engagement via scholarly projects
• Guided “learning communities of practice” for; women, clinical educators, faculty administrators

Outcomes

We measure outcomes of the program using Kirkpatrick’s multi-level assessments at the learning, behavior and organization levels that measure satisfaction, skills and impact of program.

Due to the fact that more than 60 percent of NJMS faculty is on the clinical educator or the newly established professional practice track with unique mentoring needs, the first AEM Program learning community cohort was launched for Clinical Educator faculty in February 2018 with 17 participants. The next cohort will include underrepresented minority women faculty and is expected to be launched in Fall 2018. Future cohorts will be solicited via application.

Faculty Development includes sessions on:

Advancement: Self-actualization with Individualized Faculty Development Plan and core workshops to build knowledge/skills for educators leading to career advancement and gratification

Engagement: Advancing scholarship through “Learn-by-doing” (research or teaching or health system improvement)

Mentoring:  Team of mentors (internal and external) including peer mentors, project mentor etc.

Vitality: Cultivating Community; Life-work integration sessions