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Mastering Surgical Faculty Mentorship: Becoming, Sustaining, and Recognizing When to Part Ways

Session TypeWorkshop

Is this submission from an ASE Committee, Task Force, or Working Group?

Yes

Which Committee(s)/Task Force(s)/Working Group(s)?
  • Communications
  • Faculty Development
  • Simulation
Session Information

Session Description

The ASE recognizes that finding effective mentorship models is rare, even with the knowledge that mentorship significantly impacts personal and professional fulfillment, success, and development. A good mentor can change perspective, affect careers, and open opportunities, and we want to help provide you with the toolset for this! This workshop will introduce different mentorship models, discuss successful and unsuccessful strategies, and facilitate practicing skills in breakout groups.

Workshop Length

90-minute workshop

If a similar workshop is submitted, would you be willing to combine workshops into one session?

Yes

Would you be open to presenting a workshop of a different duration than selected above if needed?

Yes

Session Objective 1

Understand the basic principles of mentorship and demonstrate mentoring skills through simulated practice

Session Objective 2

Identify the key components of an effective mentorship and how to be an impactful mentor for professional, career, and personal development

Session Objective 3

Recognize when mentorship is not working and how to realign the relationship or decide to end it

Session Objective 4

Acquire tools for engaging in inclusive mentoring

Session Objective 5

Collaborate on opportunities to develop asynchronous mentorship modules for the ASE in the future

Session Outline
Activity Order Title of Presentation or Activity Presenter/Faculty Name Presenter/Faculty Email Time allotted in minutes for activity

1
Introduction: Basic Principles of Mentorship
Christie Bialowas
[email protected]
5

2
Mentoring Skills and Simulation (Brief Presentation): Using simulation models for teaching mentoring skills
Kenneth Lipshy
[email protected]
10

3
Mentoring Skills and Simulation (Hands-On Activity): How to be an impactful mentor and work with prompts to simulate a mentoring model
Ming-Li Wang
[email protected]
10

4
Mentoring Skills and Simulation (Large Group Discussion): Key components of an effective mentorship for professional, career, and personal development
Ming-Li Wang
[email protected]
5

5
Troubleshooting Mentor-Mentee Relationships (Brief Presentation): When to part ways
Erika Simmerman Mabes
[email protected]
10

6
Troubleshooting Mentor-Mentee Relationships (Hands-On Activity): Problem identification with mentor-mentee relationships
Chad Cryer
[email protected]
10

7
Troubleshooting Mentor-Mentee Relationships (Large Group Discussion): Problematic behavior identified, collaboration on solutions, and discussion of when and how to walk away
Chad Cryer
[email protected]
5

8
Inclusive Mentoring (Brief Presentation): Mentoring Approach Prioritizing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Joon Shim
[email protected]
10

9
Inclusive Mentoring (Hands-On Activity): Discuss Inclusive Mentoring and Cross-Cultural Mentoring
Christie Bialowas
[email protected]
10

10
Inclusive Mentoring (Large group discussion)
Joon Shim
[email protected]
5

11
Future Opportunities for Mentorship Modules and Curriculum Development (Brief Presentation)
Trista Smith
[email protected]
5

12
Future Opportunities for Mentorship Modules and Curriculum Development: Open Collaboration on ASE asynchronous curriculum development design and implementation
Trista Smith
[email protected]
10