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Editorial
. 2014 Feb;164(2):226-7.e1-3.
doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2013.11.006.

AMIGO: a novel approach to the mentorship gap in pediatric rheumatology

Peter A Nigrovic  1 , Eyal Muscal  2 , Meredith Riebschleger  3 , L Nandini Moorthy  4 , Hermine I Brunner  5 , Barbara A Eberhard  6 , Marisa Klein-Gitelman  7 , Sampath Prahalad  8 , Rayfel Schneider  9
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Editorial

AMIGO: a novel approach to the mentorship gap in pediatric rheumatology

Peter A Nigrovic et al. J Pediatr. 2014 Feb.
No abstract available

Keywords: ACR; ACR/CARRA Mentoring Interest Group; AMIGO; American College of Rheumatology; CARRA; Childhood Arthritis and Rheumatology Research Alliance.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflict of Interest: All authors declare no conflict of interest.

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Figure 1.
Figure 1.. Benefit of AMIGO to mentees.
Pilot phase participants (n=37 respondents, 97%) were surveyed 17 months after match as to whether mentoring had benefitted mentees in the domains of career path, research/scholarship, job satisfaction, and work-life balance. Dark bars, mentees; light bars, mentors.
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