Midcareer women faculty face unique career challenges that may benefit from mentorship
and sponsorship, yet such programs focused on the needs of this career phase are scarce in
academic medicine. Many midcareer faculty require intentional and individual career
planning to choose a path from the broad array of options in academic medicine. Ambiguous
promotion criteria, increased workloads because of service or citizenship tasks, and a lack of
sponsorship are among the barriers that inhibit midcareer faculty's growth into the high …