Clinical trial NCT01184131: NCRR ARRA Development-Workforce Development
Official title: Implementation and Evaluation of Formal Training for Mentors of K-Series Mentored Career Awards
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Research Mentoring Skills
Keywords: Mentor Training
Randomized trial of mentoring effectiveness
Mentoring clinical researchers
Lead sponsor: University of Wisconsin, Madison
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: National Center for Research Resources (NCRR)
First posted: 2010-08-18
Enrollment: 300
Sex: ALL
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL

Brief summary: The research proposed in this collaborative application Implementation and Evaluation of Formal Training for Mentors of K-Series Mentored Career Development Awards will uniquely study mentor training in the biomedical academic community. The randomized controlled trial will be conducted at 15 Clinical and Translational Science Award sites over a 21-month period with six months for baseline data collection, nine months for the intervention, three months for follow-up, and three months for analysis. The multi-site trial will be conducted to determine whether the resultant skills-focused, case-based, mentor training program can improve the mentoring skills of K series mentors.

Detailed description: The trial will be conducted over a 21-month period with six months for baseline data collection, nine months for the intervention, three months for follow-up, and three months for analysis. The trial will be conducted to determine whether the resultant skills-focused, case-based, mentor training program can improve the mentoring skills of K series mentors. Our modified Wisconsin Mentoring Seminar Curriculum will consist of four 2-hour sessions administered within an 8-week period, using trained facilitators. Scholars will include all recipients of a K-Series Award at the 3 CTSA sites (e.g., K01, K08, K12, K23, K24, K99, KL2), who will be funded during the two-year cycle of this Administrative Supplement. We will randomly assign 300 K-award mentors of these scholars to a control group (n=150) or to the experimental intervention (n=150).

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

- Mentor of junior faculty, post doc or PhD student engaged in clinical or translational research Willingness to attend mentor training if assigned to intervention arm

Exclusion Criteria:

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Primary outcomes:
measure: Improvement of Mentoring Skills (comprised of 6 key competencies).
timeFrame: 6 months post intervention
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Increased Active Mentoring of the mentee
timeFrame: 6 months post intervention
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Madison
country: United States
facility: UW Madison
state: Wisconsin
Study officials:
affiliation: UW Madison
name: Marc K Drezner, MD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Pfund C, House SC, Asquith P, Fleming MF, Buhr KA, Burnham EL, Eichenberger Gilmore JM, Huskins WC, McGee R, Schurr K, Shapiro ED, Spencer KC, Sorkness CA. Training mentors of clinical and translational research scholars: a randomized controlled trial. Acad Med. 2014 May;89(5):774-82. doi: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000000218.