Acute Posterior Multifocal Placoid Pigment Epitheliopathy Presenting with Multiple Serous Retinal and Bacillary Layer Detachments: A Diagnostic Challenge.

Effective mentorship is a cornerstone of physician development and plays a critical role in supporting career development, scholarly productivity, professional identity formation and overall job satisfaction among physicians. Strong mentorship has been associated with improved faculty retention, enhanced academic advancement and increased engagement in education and leadership roles. Despite its recognized importance, mentorship in medicine is often inconsistently implemented and highly variable in quality. Faculty members may be expected to serve as mentors without formal training or structured support, relying instead on personal experience or informal role modeling. This variability can result in gaps in mentorship effectiveness, such as unclear expectations, suboptimal communication and limited ability to address diverse mentee needs across career stages. In addition, evolving expectations around mentorship to support inclusion, promote wellness and navigate increasingly complex career pathways have further highlighted the limitations of informal approaches to mentorship. In response to these challenges, there has been growing recognition that mentorship skills can be intentionally developed through structured faculty development initiatives. Prior work across academic medicine has demonstrated that mentorship training programs can improve mentor confidence, communication skills and the ability to establish effective mentoring relationships. Additionally, within our own department, feedback from both current and prior resident physicians as well as physician faculty identified faculty mentorship skill development as an opportunity for improvement. To address these gaps, we developed and implemented a structured mentorship skill workshop curriculum for radiation oncology physician faculty within a single academic department. The objective of this study is to describe the design and implementation of this mentorship skill development curriculum as well as curriculum impact measured by participant self-assessment pre- and post-curriculum implementation. By sharing this approach, we aim to provide a practical model for other departments seeking to foster an intentional and effective mentorship culture.