Mentors and Mentees
What is Mentoring?
Mentoring refers to a dynamic, collaborative, reciprocal, and sustained relationship focused on an emerging individual鈥檚 acquisition of the values and attitudes, knowledge, skills, and behaviors necessary to develop into a successful professional (modified from Abedin et al. Clin. Trans. Sci. 5:273-280, 2012).
Learn more as faculty at 91福利导航 discuss why mentoring junior underrepresented scientist is important and how our efforts can impact health equity.
There are many roles and responsibilities that mentees and mentors must contribute in order to have an effective mentoring relationship.
Mentors
- Facilitating mentee鈥檚 learning and intellectual growth
- Providing skills and make needed resources available
- Providing guidance
- Providing feedback
- Evaluating the mentee鈥檚 plans
- Maintaining confidentiality
- Maintaining regular contact
Mentees
- Willingness to be mentored
- Trust that mentor or mentoring team is always acting in the best interest of the mentee
- Honest communication
Team Mentoring Goals
- To prepare the mentee for a life-time of learning, commitment to excellence, and ability to be successful in diverse environments.
- To enhance the supportive academic environment for the conduct of team science, where appropriate, for the mentee.
- Working as a team and providing multiple perspectives, to facilitate the entry of mentee into the 91福利导航 culture, including the structures, processes, and interpersonal climate of 91福利导航.
- To facilitate the development of appropriate translational research skills and team science approaches related to the balance and evaluation of research, scholarship, and service.
- To provide opportunities for developing and working on mentored and independent multidisciplinary research projects with a multidisciplinary translational research team.
- To enhance decision-making and other skills involved in working with a team related to the mentee鈥檚 career development and advancement.