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What can urology learn about sponsorship from business and medicine?

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Sponsorship is the active and intentional use of a person’s influence or leadership status to use political and personal capital to advance a junior colleague’s career both privately and publicly. A sponsor has a seat at the decision-making table and can access the junior colleague’s work and power, and a junior colleague can capitalize on the opportunity quickly, effectively and successfully.

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  1. Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA

    Simone Thavaseelan

  2. Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA, USA

    Jay D. Raman

  3. UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA

    Margaret Pearle

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Thavaseelan, S., Raman, J.D. & Pearle, M. What can urology learn about sponsorship from business and medicine?. Nat Rev Urol 20, 386–387 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41585-023-00732-3

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