Mentoring Resources
The National Institute of General Medical Sciences describes mentoring as "a relationship between a more experienced person, the mentor, and a less experienced person, the mentee or trainee, within which important career skills are transferred from one to the other. The mentoring relationship is an agreement between two people that the mentor will take a long-term interest in the career development and aspirations of the mentee. This is a serious responsibility for the mentor, who must accept that he or she has taken on an important, perhaps life-long, role in another's career." The resources below are available to support and enhance the mentor-mentee relationship.
- Northwestern University Center for Education and Career Development
The Center for Education and Career Development offers a range of mentoring services to engage new and seasoned faculty mentors at the Feinberg School of Medicine. See Center for Education and Career Development. - National Research Mentoring Network
Five institutions were awarded funds to develop a national network to provide evidence-based and culturally-aware mentorship, grantsmanship training and other professional development, networking opportunities, and resources to mentors and their trainees across the biomedical sciences. Programming is available to support scientists throughout their career, from undergraduate students to senior faculty members. See National Research Mentoring Network (NRMN). - Center for the Improvement of Mentored Experiences in Research (CIMER)
CIMER faculty and staff investigate approaches for improving research mentoring relationships for organizations and institutions. We develop, implement and evaluate mentor and mentee training using theoretically-grounded, evidence-based, and culturally-responsive training interventions and investigations. See CIMER. - University of Pittsburgh’s Mentoring Resources
The Institute for Clinical Research Education at the University of Pittsburgh promotes education and research in clinical and translational science across the career pipeline. Their Mentoring Resources website explore topics such as deciding on the right mentoring model, communicating effectively, giving and receiving feedback, and finding strategies for problem solving. See University of Pittsburgh’s Mentoring Resources. - Northwestern University CTSI Mentoring Alignment Checklist
The CTSI Mentoring Alignment Checklist features items for trainee and mentor expectations. - AAMC Compact Between Postdoctoral Appointees and Their Mentors
The Compact is intended to initiate discussions at the local and national levels about the postdoctoral trainee-mentor relationship and the commitments necessary for a high quality postdoctoral training experience. - AAMC Compact Between Biomedical Graduate Students and Their Research Advisors
These guiding principles are intended to support the development of a positive mentoring relationship between the predoctoral student and their research advisors. - ICTR Mentoring Compacts/Contracts Examples
These are five different frameworks to help each other mentor customize your own compact.