TY - JOUR
T1 - Global health mentoring toolkits
T2 - A scoping review relevant for low- and middle-income country institutions
AU - Hansoti, Bhakti
AU - Kalbarczyk, Anna
AU - Hosseinipour, Mina C.
AU - Prabhakaran, Dorairaj
AU - Tucker, Joseph D.
AU - Nachega, Jean
AU - Wallis, Lee
AU - Stiles, Jonathan K.
AU - Wynn, Adriane
AU - Morroni, Chelsea
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Acknowledgments: We received support from the FIC Global Health Program for Fellows and Scholar consortia, including the University of California GloCal Health Fellowship (FIC D43TW009343), the Vanderbilt-Emory-Cornell-Duke Consortium for Global Health Fellows (D43TW009337), the UNC-Johns Hopkins-Morehouse-Tulane Fogarty Global Health Fellowship Program (D43TW009340), the Northern Pacific Global Health Research Fellows Consortium (D43TW009345), the Harvard-Boston University-Northwestern University-University of New Mexico Fogarty Global Health Training Program (D43TW010543), and the Yale-Berkeley-FIU-Stanford Global Health Equity Scholars Program (D43TW010540). Examples of institutional capacity building models for mentorship include that of the Mentoring Academy at the Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) developed by Winston Thompson and J. K. S. received funding from the National Institutes of Health Research Centers in Minority Institutions (NIH/RCMI).
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Conflicts of Interest: DP reports grants from United States National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Department of Health and Human Services and the UnitedHealth Group, Minneapolis, MN, grants from Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) and Fogarty International Center, during the conduct of the study.
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Examples of institutional capacity-building models for mentorship include that of the Mentoring Academy at the Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM), which is supported by the NIH Research Centers in Minority Institutions, and the African regional training workshops conducted by the Fogarty International Center (FIC)-supported Global Health Program for Fellows and Scholars consortia described earlier. In addition, the NIH-funded National Research Mentoring Network13 and the Building Infrastructure Leading to Diversity programs in the United States conduct regional training to enhance biomedical, clinical, and translational research mentoring in U.S. institutions.13 Some of the key lessons learned from these programs that could be applied to global health research conducted in LMICs include the need for a sound argument based on return on investment at the institutional leadership level; the need to demonstrate through well-designed institutional self-study, the benefits gained by the institution by systematizing mentoring of mentees and showing better outcomes among those receiving effective mentoring and those who did not; and the need to train faculty and learners to imagine the mentor–mentee relationship not only as a capacity building and development initiative, but also a succession planning activity to ensure continued advancement of health for the country.
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Copyright © 2019 by The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Capacity building in low- and middle-income country (LMIC) institutions hinges on the delivery of effective mentorship. This study presents an overview of mentorship toolkits applicable to LMIC institutions identified through a scoping review. A scoping review approach was used to 1) map the extent, range, and nature of mentorship resources and tools available and 2) to identify knowledge gaps in the current literature. To identify toolkits, we collected and analyzed data provided online that met the following criteria: written in English and from organizations and individuals involved in global health mentoring. We searched electronic databases, including PubMed, Web of Science, and Google Scholar, and Google search engine. Once toolkits were identified, we extracted the available tools and mapped them to pre-identified global health competencies. Only three of the 18 identified toolkits were developed specifically for the LMIC context. Most toolkits focused on individual mentor–mentee relationships. Most focused on the domains of communication and professional development. Fewer toolkits focused on ethics, overcoming resource limitations, and fostering institutional change. No toolkits discussed strategies for group mentoring or how to adapt existing tools to a local context. There is a paucity of mentoring resources specifically designed for LMIC settings. We identified several toolkits that focus on aspects of individual mentor–mentee relationships that could be adapted to local contexts. Future work should focus on adaptation and the development of tools to support institutional change and capacity building for mentoring.
AB - Capacity building in low- and middle-income country (LMIC) institutions hinges on the delivery of effective mentorship. This study presents an overview of mentorship toolkits applicable to LMIC institutions identified through a scoping review. A scoping review approach was used to 1) map the extent, range, and nature of mentorship resources and tools available and 2) to identify knowledge gaps in the current literature. To identify toolkits, we collected and analyzed data provided online that met the following criteria: written in English and from organizations and individuals involved in global health mentoring. We searched electronic databases, including PubMed, Web of Science, and Google Scholar, and Google search engine. Once toolkits were identified, we extracted the available tools and mapped them to pre-identified global health competencies. Only three of the 18 identified toolkits were developed specifically for the LMIC context. Most toolkits focused on individual mentor–mentee relationships. Most focused on the domains of communication and professional development. Fewer toolkits focused on ethics, overcoming resource limitations, and fostering institutional change. No toolkits discussed strategies for group mentoring or how to adapt existing tools to a local context. There is a paucity of mentoring resources specifically designed for LMIC settings. We identified several toolkits that focus on aspects of individual mentor–mentee relationships that could be adapted to local contexts. Future work should focus on adaptation and the development of tools to support institutional change and capacity building for mentoring.
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U2 - 10.4269/ajtmh.18-0563
DO - 10.4269/ajtmh.18-0563
M3 - Article
C2 - 30430981
AN - SCOPUS:85059797942
VL - 100
SP - 48
EP - 53
JO - American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
JF - American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
SN - 0002-9637
ER -