Abstracts tagged "Career and mentor"

Abstract Number: 1014 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Improvement in Mentoring Associated with Implementation of an Inter-Institutional Mentoring Program within Pediatric Rheumatology
Lakshmi N. Moorthy¹, Eyal Muscal², Meredith Riebschleger³, Marisa S. Klein-Gitelman⁴, Lise E. Nigrovic⁵, Kelly A. Rouster-Stevens⁶, Polly J. Ferguson⁷, B. Anne Eberhard⁸, Hermine I. Brunner⁹, Sampath Prahalad¹⁰, Rayfel Schneider¹¹ and Peter A. Nigrovic¹², ¹Pediatric Rheumatology, Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ, ²Pediatric Rheumatology, Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX, ³Pediatric Rheumatology & Health Services Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ⁴Division of Rheumatology, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, IL, ⁵Division of Emergency Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA, ⁶Pediatric Rheumatology, Emory Univ School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, ⁷Dept of Pediatrics--Rheum, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, ⁸Schneider Children's Hospital, New Hyde Park, NY, ⁹Pediatric Rheumatology Collaborative Study Group, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, ¹⁰Emory University School of Medicine and Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA, ¹¹Division of Rheumatology, The Hospital for Sick Children and University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ¹²Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Mentoring is a key contributor to success in academic medicine. In pediatric rheumatology, surveys have repeatedly identified mentoring as a major career unmet need…