The Science of Retention: How MotherMind is Elevating Scientist Mothers
At the Women in Medicine Summitโข last week, I had the absolute privilege of attending Dr. Julie Silver, MD's keynote on ๐ฒ๐๐ถ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ป๐ฐ๐ฒ-๐ฏ๐ฎ๐๐ฒ๐ฑ strategies for improving burnout and retaining faculty in academic medicine. Dr. Silver is a ๐ global thought leader ๐ง in this space and also happens to be my idol ๐
๐ธ ๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฏ๐๐๐ถ๐ป๐ฒ๐๐ ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐๐ฒ: The cost of physician recruitment and start-up ranges between $268-957k per physician (Hamidi et al., 2018)
Dr. Silver highlighted ๐๐๐ผ ๐ฝ๐ฟ๐ถ๐บ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ ๐ณ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐ driving faculty to leave their medical schools from a study of over 18,000 faculty across 36 institutions (Zimmermann et al., 2020).
โบ The #1 factor is ๐น๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐ด๐ฟ๐ผ๐๐๐ต ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐ฝ๐ฟ๐ผ๐ณ๐ฒ๐๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป๐ฎ๐น ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐๐ฒ๐น๐ผ๐ฝ๐บ๐ฒ๐ป๐ ๐ผ๐ฝ๐ฝ๐ผ๐ฟ๐๐๐ป๐ถ๐๐ถ๐ฒ๐.
โบ The second major factor highlighted by Dr. Silver was ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐น๐ผ๐ป๐ด๐ถ๐ป๐ด๐ป๐ฒ๐๐. In a separate study of 366 physicians, 99% of whom were women, the lower number of belonging factors experienced, the greater their reported likelihood of leaving (Schaechter, et al., 2023).
๐ก ๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฏ๐ผ๐๐๐ผ๐บ ๐น๐ถ๐ป๐ฒ: Institutional leaders should consider professional development opportunities and cultivating a sense of belongingness in developing proactive strategies to retain faculty.
๐๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐๐ต๐ถ๐ฝ ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐๐ฒ๐น๐ผ๐ฝ๐บ๐ฒ๐ป๐ and ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐น๐ผ๐ป๐ด๐ถ๐ป๐ด๐ป๐ฒ๐๐ are cornerstones of our flagship ๐ ๐ผ๐๐ต๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ ๐ถ๐ป๐ฑ ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐๐ถ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ป๐ฐ๐ ๐ฝ๐ฟ๐ผ๐ด๐ฟ๐ฎ๐บ. MotherMind improves the engagement, performance, mobility, and retention of scientist mothers. We develop future institutional leaders, sealing the "leaky pipeline" and improving representation of mother-identifying scientists among the higher ranks and in leadership positions.
MotherMind features a three-pronged approach that merges group coaching, peer coaching, and individual executive coaching. Participants gain unwavering confidence in effective leadership skills, align their work and life with their foremost vision and values, and form deep, life-long connections with a network of inspiring scientist mothers who understand the greatest joys and most complex challenges of balancing motherhood and a demanding career in science.
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