Relating mentor type and mentoring behaviors to academic medicine faculty satisfaction and productivity at one medical school.

Purpose: To examine relationships among having formal and informal mentors, mentoring behaviors, and satisfaction and productivity for academic medicine faculty.

Method: In 2005, the authors surveyed full-time faculty at the University of Minnesota Medical School to assess their perceptions of variables associated with job satisfaction and productivity. This analysis focused on perceptions of mentoring as related to satisfaction with current position and productivity (articles published in peer-reviewed journals [article production] and role as a primary investigator [PI] or a co-PI on a grant/contract).

Organizational climate and family life: how these factors affect the status of women faculty at one medical school.

Purpose: To compare men and women faculty's family situations and perceptions of organizational climate.

Method: In 2005, the authors sent an electronic survey to full-time faculty at the University of Minnesota Medical School to assess their perceptions of professional relationships, mentoring, obstacles to satisfaction, policies, circumstances that contribute to departure, gender equality, family situations, and work life.

Results: Of 615 faculty, 354 (57%) responded.