VIDEO: Matrix Mentorship program boosts job retention, work-life integration within 1 year
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RANCHO PALOS VERDES, Calif. — In a Healio video exclusive, Dawn Sears, MD, FACG, said within 1 year after completion of the Matrix Mentorship program, participants demonstrated a drastic increase in job retention and work-life integration.
“There are so many things that we are talking about right now with mentorship and the ability to mentor women physicians, especially women physicians that are in underrepresented specialties, like gastroenterology, cardiology or surgery,” Sears, chief of gastroenterology at the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs, clinical professor of medicine at Texas A&M University School of Medicine and owner of GutGirlMD, LLC, said. “To have a mentor helps you to learn how to do things you have never done before.”
She added: “They can also mold into becoming your sponsor or your advocate and your sponsor or advocate is the person who speaks about you when you're not in a room and opens up even bigger opportunities and can change the trajectory of your career.”
Compared with mentee-reported data at the beginning of the Matrix Mentorship program, outcome data showed an increased ability to speak freely and ask for what they want (30%-66%) and decreased feelings of not having enough time at work (70%-22%).
Mentees also reported increased job retention (50%-70%) as well as an increased ability to be present for friends and family (20%-88%).
“We are changing relationships, we are changing families, we are changing dynamics, we’re changing the entire work of living, work and life together and how we show up,” Sears noted. “My goal is to stop the hemorrhaging of women physicians from gastroenterology and being a part of the Matrix Mentorship did that.”
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Sears D. Success stories and lessons learned from the Scrubs & Heels Matrix Mentorship program. Presented at: Scrubs and Heels Summit; Feb. 17-19. 2023; Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif.
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