Building Stronger Foundations: Exploring a Collaborative Faculty Mentoring Workshop for In-depth Growth

Details of the Workshop Designing and facilitation: Faculty mentoring workshop with the title "Faculty Mentoring; building stronger by digging deeper" was designed as a two-day workshop of three hours each for the faculty members of the two institutions at separate times.

Workshop learning outcomes and activities: The learning outcomes of the workshop day 1 were, importance and benefits of faculty mentoring program, roles and responsibilities of mentors and mentees, the ethics and stages of any mentoring relationship. The activities used were group discussions and ethical dilemmas were demonstrated by role plays by the participants in groups of three. Day 2 agenda was developing a mentor or a mentee portfolio with special focus on self. The activities were personal Strength, Weakness, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT) analysis, goal setting for a mentor and a mentee and developing an action plan. Most of the day was dedicated to hands-on individual activities followed by voluntary sharing of the personal development goals and a discussion on the correct ways of framing goals and realistic ways of writing an actionable plan with milestones defining success.

Data Collection

Data Sources:

• Qualitative Data:

• During Workshop: SWOT analysis, goals set and the action plan developed by each participant during the group activities and the individual hands-on sessions the workshop
• Post workshop: Reflections of participants were requested to write the three things that they learnt, followed by the questions still in their mind and one change that they will make after the workshop
• Quantitative data

• Pre workshop: The data of the faculty was collected before the workshop in terms of their title and years of experience.
• Post workshop: feedback on the workshop's effectiveness was acquired by a questionnaire which was developed by department of Continuous Medical Education at Aga Khan University (Appendix A). The content, construct and criterion validity were checked before pilot testing by subject matter experts and it was ensured that questions were relevant to the objectives of the activity and was clear and understandable to the respondents. Responses were further categorized into levels of satisfaction: "Unsatisfactory," "Satisfactory," and "Excellent." Qualitative feedback was in alignment with the discussions during the workshop, with special focus on possible change in their mentoring practices after attending the workshop.

Inclusion criteria

• Faculty members working full time in the medical college

Exclusion criteria

• The faculty not giving consent