In part two of our Pediatric Insight mentorship series, we continue the conversation addressing how to measure mentorship success. In this episode, the Child Health Advisory Council (CHAC) members discuss important questions such as:
– Measuring mentoring success and impact
– Navigating common challenges
– Identifying and resolving mentor–mentee conflicts
– Mentoring and supporting new leaders and recruits
This week, we kick off three-part series about how mentorship, coaching and sponsorship is shaping the next generation of pediatric leaders.
In this first episode, moderated by Valerie Opipari, MD, our expert panel dives into what makes mentorship effective and enduring. They answer:
How does a mentor’s role differ from that of a coach or sponsor?
How can young clinicians identify the right mentors to guide their careers?
What traits define a successful mentor–mentee relationship?
Packed with practical insights and real experiences, this conversation offers inspiration and guidance for both mentors and mentees in academic medicine.
Pediatric departments are stretched by unprecedented clinical demand. How do you fully integrate full-time clinicians into the academic mission without losing alignment across the university, hospital and community?
In this episode, Dr. Arnie Strauss leads a candid discussion on what actually moves the needle.
The Child Health Advisory Council discusses what institutions can do to demonstrate a commitment to broad representation by those under-represented in medicine. Moderated by Danielle Laraque-Arena, MD with special guests, Lisa Eiland, MD and Colin Orr, MD, the panel discusses challenges in recruiting medical students to choose pediatrics and what institutions can do.
What pathways can we forge to address gender leadership and pay disparities in pediatric leadership?
Dr. Valerie Opipari brings together an esteemed group of female leaders to discuss solutions, experiences and predictions for the future in this special episode of Pediatric Insight.
Listen to hear how they’re challenging inequities and charting a new path forward for the next generation of female leaders.
Colleagues and faculty members who are outliers can be positively disruptive because they bring innovation. On the other side of the spectrum, some outliers aren’t serving your department well, due to poor behavior or performance.
A real challenge for leaders is identifying these outliers and either supporting them through guidance and course correction or finding a new career path.
In the latest Pediatric Insight conversation, pediatric leaders tackle this topic head-on, sharing their experiences.
A critical conversation by the Child Health Advisory Council, work force shortages are real and solutions that impact the causes and enable programmatic solutions are years in the making. The obvious and obscure issues impacting student and resident decisions, sharper declines in MD student vs DO and FMG graduate subspecialty decisions, and strategies and best practices for leaders to incorporate into their student and trainee experiences are all address in this Insight.
Successful communication is about listening, being open and maintaining confidentiality, according to Dr. Arnie Strauss.
Listen to the Child Health Advisory Council members discuss their experiences and learn how to build trust with your teams using the communication tactics that matter most.
Host: Wesley D. Millican, MBA
Moderator: Craig Hillemeier, MD
Council members in attendance: F. Bruder Stapleton, MD; Valerie Opipari, MD; Bruce Rubin, MD; Arnold Strauss, MD; Robert Sawin, MD
As we close out our Pediatric Insight Conversations series on mentorship, the Child Health Advisory Council (CHAC) turns to a topic that may be the most influential and the least discussed driver of career satisfaction in academic pediatrics: the master connector.
Inspired by Malcolm Gladwell’s concept and shaped by decades of leadership experience, the panel explores how master connectors do far more than match mentors and mentees. They actively shape cultures, open doors, accelerate careers, and most importantly – help protect clinicians from burnout.
As Dr. Craig Hillemeier put it, “Mentorship is one of the few things in medicine that creates a truly positive impact for both the mentor and the mentee. A master connector ensures people understand that and helps make those relationships actually work.”
