title: The Changing Faces of Mentorship: Application of a Developmental Network Framework in a Health Services Research Career Development Program.
abstract: Historically, mentorship has been conceived of as a dyadic relationship between a senior mentor and an early-career investigator. Models involving multiple mentors have gained favor in recent years, but empirical research on multiple-mentor models has been lacking. The current work aims to fill this gap by describing a long-standing health services research mentoring program at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs which has adopted a network-based approach to mentoring. As part of a broader project, we surveyed VA HSR&D Career Development Awardees who received an award between 2000 and 2012. In total, 133 awardees participated (84%). Awardees reported on the structure of mentoring relationships with their two most influential mentors. Awardees were mentored by teams consisting of one to five mentors (M = 2.7 mentors). Most often, one mentor served as primary mentor while one or more mentors played a supporting role. In most cases, an awardee's primary mentor was co-located with the awardee, with fewer secondary mentors co-located. More recently funded CDAs had more mentors and were less likely to be co-located with secondary mentors. The VA HSR&D CDA program incorporates current thinking about Developmental Network models of mentorship into a comprehensive program providing a rich mentorship experience for its awardees.
authors.affiliation: Center for Innovation to Implementation, VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Menlo Park, California, USA.
authors.forename: Max A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Halvorson
authors.affiliation: Center for Innovation to Implementation, VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Menlo Park, California, USA.|Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA.
authors.forename: John W
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Finney
authors.affiliation: Center for Innovation to Implementation, VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Menlo Park, California, USA.
authors.forename: Xiaoyu
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Bi
authors.affiliation: Center for Innovation to Implementation, VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Menlo Park, California, USA.
authors.forename: Natalya C
authors.initials: NC
authors.lastname: Maisel
authors.affiliation: Center for Innovation to Implementation, VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Menlo Park, California, USA.
authors.forename: Ko P
authors.initials: KP
authors.lastname: Hayashi
authors.affiliation: Center for Innovation to Implementation, VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Menlo Park, California, USA.|Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA.|VA Sierra Pacific Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center, Palo Alto, California, USA.
authors.forename: Julie C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Weitlauf
authors.affiliation: Center for Innovation to Implementation, VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Menlo Park, California, USA.|Department of Sociology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA.|Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA.
authors.forename: Ruth C
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: Cronkite
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001363:Awards and Prizes; D002321:Career Choice; D003142:Communication; D005260:Female; D006302:Health Services Research / Q000379:methods*; D006787:Hospitals, Veterans; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008611:Mentors; D008875:Middle Aged; D010358:Patient Participation; D010379:Peer Group; D014481:United States; D014493:United States Department of Veterans Affairs; D000078329:Workforce
keywords: Veterans Health Administration; career development; developmental network; mentorship