Surgical departments in U.S. hospitals are falling short on mentorship programs, according tonew research published in JAMA Surgery.
Researchers, led by Melina R. Kibbe, M.D., of the Department of Surgery at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, conducted a survey among 155 department of surgery chairs across the country about their mentorship programs’ structures or whether they had one in the first place. They found that only about 54 percent of the 76 chairs who responded to the survey reported having a mentorship program at all, while 1 in 3 departments overall had no formal or informal pairing between mentors and pupils.
