Can Mentorship Shatter the Glass Ceiling in Academic Microsurgery? A National Survey of Microsurgery Fellowship-Trained Women
Copyright © 2023 by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons..
BACKGROUND: The "leaky pipeline" phenomenon has caused women to remain underrepresented at higher levels of academic plastic surgery. No study has considered the availability of mentorship within any subset of academic plastic surgery. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the current representation of women in academic microsurgery and to determine the impact of mentorship on career progression.
METHODS: An electronic survey was designed to determine the availability and quality of mentorship respondents received at different stages of their career (from medical student to attending physician). The survey was distributed to women who completed a microsurgery fellowship and were current faculty at an academic plastic surgery program.
RESULTS: Twenty-seven of 48 survey recipients participated (56.3% response rate). Most held an associate professor (20.0%) or assistant professor (40.0%) position. Respondents had an average of 4.1 ± 2.3 mentors throughout their entire training. A minority of mentors were microsurgery trained (28.3%), and only 29.2% of respondents reported female mentorship throughout their training. Attending physicians least often received formative mentorship (52.0%). Fifty percent of respondents sought female mentors, citing that they desired female insight. Of those who did not seek female mentors, 72.7% cited a lack of access to female mentors.
CONCLUSIONS: Evidenced by female trainees being unable to find female mentors and low rates of mentorship at the attending physician level, there is currently not enough capacity to meet the demand for female mentorship by women pursuing academic microsurgery. Many individual and structural barriers to quality mentorship and sponsorship exist within this field.
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2023 |
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2023 |
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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:152 |
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Plastic and reconstructive surgery - 152(2023), 6 vom: 01. Dez., Seite 1143e-1153e |
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Abdou, Salma A [VerfasserIn] |
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Date Completed 30.11.2023 Date Revised 12.12.2023 published: Print-Electronic Citation Status MEDLINE |
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| 520 | |a BACKGROUND: The "leaky pipeline" phenomenon has caused women to remain underrepresented at higher levels of academic plastic surgery. No study has considered the availability of mentorship within any subset of academic plastic surgery. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the current representation of women in academic microsurgery and to determine the impact of mentorship on career progression | ||
| 520 | |a METHODS: An electronic survey was designed to determine the availability and quality of mentorship respondents received at different stages of their career (from medical student to attending physician). The survey was distributed to women who completed a microsurgery fellowship and were current faculty at an academic plastic surgery program | ||
| 520 | |a RESULTS: Twenty-seven of 48 survey recipients participated (56.3% response rate). Most held an associate professor (20.0%) or assistant professor (40.0%) position. Respondents had an average of 4.1 ± 2.3 mentors throughout their entire training. A minority of mentors were microsurgery trained (28.3%), and only 29.2% of respondents reported female mentorship throughout their training. Attending physicians least often received formative mentorship (52.0%). Fifty percent of respondents sought female mentors, citing that they desired female insight. Of those who did not seek female mentors, 72.7% cited a lack of access to female mentors | ||
| 520 | |a CONCLUSIONS: Evidenced by female trainees being unable to find female mentors and low rates of mentorship at the attending physician level, there is currently not enough capacity to meet the demand for female mentorship by women pursuing academic microsurgery. Many individual and structural barriers to quality mentorship and sponsorship exist within this field | ||
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