Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges
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Randomized Controlled Trial
Coaching to Augment Mentoring to Achieve Faculty Diversity: A Randomized Controlled Trial.
The Academy for Future Science Faculty (the Academy) is a novel coaching intervention for biomedical PhD students designed to address limitations in previous efforts to promote faculty diversity. Unlike traditional research mentoring, the Academy includes both group and individual coaching, coaches have no research or evaluation roles with the students, and it is based on social science theories. The authors present a qualitative case study of one of the coaching groups and provide statistical analyses indicating whether one year in the Academy effects students' perceptions of the achievability and desirability of an academic career. ⋯ Early results suggest that an academic career coaching model can effectively supplement traditional research mentoring and promote persistence toward academic careers.