Mentor Networks in Academic Medicine

The mentor-mentee relationship in academic medicine.

In the world of academia, the power of a good mentor can be quite potent. Researchmentors inspire, teach, and/or create opportunities for those they mentor (e.g. projects, staff positions, promotions, grants). Previous authors have developed “mentor guidelines” [1,2], while Tobin [3] identified seven key roles of the successful mentor — teacher, sponsor, advisor, agent, rolemodel, coach, and co...

Mentor networks in academic medicine: moving beyond a dyadic conception of mentoring for junior faculty researchers.

PURPOSE Career development award programs often require formal establishment of mentoring relationships. The authors sought to gain a nuanced understanding of mentoring from the perspective of a diverse national sample of faculty clinician-researchers who were all members of formal mentoring relationships. METHOD Between February 2010 and August 2011, the authors conducted semistructured, in-...

Faculty Mentoring Issues in the Mentor–Mentee Relationship in Academic Medicine: A Qualitative Study

Purpose To explore the phenomenon of the mentor–mentee relationship and to characterize this relationship among people who have obtained early career support from a government funding agency, in order to facilitate the development of future mentorship programs. Method A qualitative study was completed involving clinician scientists who were awarded early career support from a provincial funding...

Virtual Mentor Medicine and Society

Unfortunately, the negative consequences of this large scale social and economic change seem to weigh as heavily in the balance as the positive. Entrenched inequalities within and between countries often contribute to development that is pathogenic in character rather than therapeutic. We see that integration of the human community can spread illness as well as healing, destruction as well as h...

Academic medicine in Singapore.