Advice on Mentorship
This webpage provides a range of resources for both faculty mentors and student mentees at PSOM to better support the mentorship experience.
Mentee Toolkit - further resources are available in the Office of Academic Affairs Mentoring Center
I. Mentee Needs Self-Assessment: Helps mentees determine the kind of mentoring they are really looking for.
II. Interviewing and Selecting Mentors: Guides mentees in determining how to recognize a good mentoring relationship match.
III. Meeting Agenda and Structure Guide: Supports mentees as they prepare for and then facilitate a meeting with their mentor.
Communication in Mentoring
- Tips for Effective Communication in Mentoring
- Mentoring Best Practices – Communication
- Best Practices for Communicating Effectively with your Mentor
- How to Write an Email to a Mentor to Schedule the First Meeting
- E-mail Introduction Template
- 30 Questions to Ask your Mentor in Your Next Meeting
- 25 Questions to Ask a Mentor (and 5 Questions to Avoid)
Realigning Mentorship Expectations
- Reassess–Realign–Reimagine: A Guide for Mentors Pivoting to Remote Research Mentoring
- Mentoring in Crisis Does Not Need to Put Mentorship in Crisis: Realigning Expectations
Culturally Aware Mentoring
- Women in Medicine: Getting in, Growing, and Advancing
- Taking My Place in Medicine: A Guide for Minority Medical Students
- Measuring Research Mentors’ Cultural Diversity Awareness for Race/Ethnicity in STEM: Validity Evidence for a New Scale
- Culturally aware mentorship: Lasting impacts of a novel intervention on academic administrators and faculty
Near-Peer Mentoring - near-peer mentoring is a learning opportunity where a student is paired with a mentor who is slightly ahead of them in their education or career. Near-peers are typically one or two years older than their mentees and can offer a variety of benefits for both mentor and mentee
- Peer Mentoring
- Near-peer STEM Mentoring Offers Unexpected Benefits for Mentors from Traditionally Underrepresented Backgrounds
Career Development
- Pause, Breathe, Reflect and Reset
- Value, Support, and Advancement: An Organization's Role in Faculty Career Intentions in Academic Medicine
- KL2 mentored career development programs at clinical and translational science award hubs: Practices and outcomes
- Training PhD Students to Successfully Navigate Research Mentoring Relationships: Letter in the Chronicle of Higher Education
Podcasts
- Thriving at PSOM - though it is geared towards faculty, the discussions are universal and also gives med students a fantastic introduction to standout PSOM faculty
- Mentorship & Sponsorship episode focuses on promotion as faculty, but those in research will find the discussion very relevant
- Feedback Strategies episode features Dr. Jen Kogan that focuses on feedback and the dynamic between mentor and mentee
- The Science of Mentorship
- Meant to Be: Mentor & Mentee
- LIFE KIT – NPR
- PODCAST- How the pandemic widened scientists' mentoring networks
TED, TEDxTalks & YouTube
- How Mentorship Changed My Life | Brian Wang | TEDxCambridgeUniversity
- Want to Get Great at Something? Get a Coach
- The 21st Century Guide to Mentorship | Elizabeth Trinh | TEDxUofM
- The Mutual Benefits of Mentorship | Vinnie Malcolm | TEDxManhattanBeach
- The Power of Reverse Mentoring | Rachael O’Connor | TEDxUniversityofLeeds
- 3 Key Elements to Thriving Mentorship | Janet Phan | TEDxZurich
- Communicating With Mentors
TikTok, Instagram & LinkedIn