Building a Better Onboarding Process: The Addition of a 30-Minute 1:1 for New Faculty

Authors

• Heather McNeill, Children's Mercy Kansas CityFollow
• Enam Haddad, Children's Mercy Kansas CityFollow
• Sarah Tsai, Children's Mercy HospitalFollow
• Ruba A. Abdelhadi, Children's Mercy HospitalFollow
• Jacqueline Hill, Children's Mercy Kansas CityFollow

Publication Date

4-2026

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Abstract

Our faculty development office examined the addition of a 30-minute personalized 1:1 session to the broader faculty onboarding strategy at our pediatric teaching hospital. We surveyed 106 new faculty who participated in a session from 2023-2025 to assess its usefulness. Of the 69 (65.7%) respondents, a large majority (92%) “agreed” or “strongly agreed” that the session was a valuable use of their time. Several faculty commented that the most useful information was learning about career development resources (e.g., mentorship program, writing center), understanding how to prepare for academic promotion, and having time to ask questions. Most new faculty thought the 1:1 was valuable, justifying the use of time and staff resources to sustain this addition to the onboarding process.

Disciplines

Medicine and Health Sciences

Notes

Presented at the AAMC 2026 Group on Business Affairs (GBA), Group on Institutional Planning (GIP), Group on Faculty Affairs (GFA) Joint Meeting, St. Louis, Mo., April 22-24, 2026. 

Recommended Citation

McNeill, Heather; Haddad, Enam; Tsai, Sarah; Abdelhadi, Ruba A.; and Hill, Jacqueline, "Building a Better Onboarding Process: The Addition of a 30-Minute 1:1 for New Faculty" (2026). Posters. 507.
https://scholarlyexchange.childrensmercy.org/posters/507