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Table 4 Predictors for stalled in ranka

From: The impact of active mentorship: results from a survey of faculty in the Department of Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital

 

Bivariate Analysis

Multivariate Analysis

Yes, n/N (%)

p-value

OR

95% CI

p-value

Gender

 Male

41/233 (17.6)

0.27

Ref

  

 Female

29/211 (13.7)

 

0.77

0.39–1.53

0.46

Race

 Non-minority

69/409 (16.9)

0.04

Ref

  

 Minority

1/33 (3.0)

 

0.17

0.02–1.36

0.09

Rank b

 Instructor

43/225 (19.1)

0.13

Ref

  

 Assistant Professor

17/148 (11.5)

 

0.52

0.24–1.11

0.09

 Associate Professor

10/71 (14.1)

 

0.19

0.06–0.66

0.009

Pathway

 Investigator

14/182 (7.7)

< 0.001

Ref

  

 Non-investigator

49/238 (20.6)

 

1.42

0.62–3.25

0.40

Have any dependents

 No

36/156 (23.1)

0.002

Ref

  

 Yes

33/282 (11.7)

 

0.57

0.29–1.13

0.11

Mentorship Score

 Low (< 3)

8/54 (14.8)

< 0.001

Ref

  

 High (≥3)

11/195 (5.6)

 

0.28

0.10–0.78

0.02

 Previously had a mentor at MGH

14/50 (28.0)

 

1.81

0.64–5.10

0.26

 Never had a mentor at MGH

21/79 (26.6)

 

3.38

1.13–10.2

0.03

  1. aOutcome was measured by subtracting the year when current rank was assigned from current year 2016. A faculty was considered stalled if one has been in the current rank for more than three times the median time in a given range; that is, > 9 years for an instructor, > 12 years for an assistant professor, and > 15 years for an associate professor
  2. bProfessors were excluded in the analysis