Formation of an Anesthesiology Residency Mentoring Program Using a Mentee-Driven Approach

Supplemental Digital Content is available in the text. Mentorship is crucial to career development and advancement in academic medicine with valuable benefits to residents realized during training and beyond. The primary aims of this program are to train faculty members to provide quality mentorship to every resident in our department and to reduce gender and racial disparities in access to mentorship. We piloted a new mentorship program that combines mentor self-nomination, mentor training with mentee-driven mentor selection. This report details the program design and early observations.