Mentorship is everyone’s responsibility

On authorship, mentorship and responsibility for data accuracy.

In an editorial in the first issue of Science in 2010, Editorin-Chief, Bruce Alberts, writes: ‘The scientific enterprise is built on a foundation of trust’. The author emphasizes the importance of maintaining high ethical standards in any scientific publishing. He points to a previous publication in Science, where he and colleague Kenneth Shine pushed for a ‘research environment that, through i...

All You Need Is Mentorship

I find it humbling to confess that most of the truly original ideas that have driven my research group’s agenda over four decades of time have come, not from my own brain, but instead from the minds of my trainees, both graduate students and post-docs. This on its own might explain why I, rather selfishly, have given them long leashes, allowing them to strike out on their own and craft their ow...

Teaching Laboratory Management Principles and Practices Through Mentorship and Graduated Responsibility

With the changing landscape of medicine in general, and pathology in particular, a greater emphasis is being placed on laboratory management as a means of controlling spiraling medical costs and improving health-care efficiency. To meet this challenge, pathology residency programs have begun to incorporate formal laboratory management training into their curricula, using institutional curricula...

whose responsibility is it anyway ?

Maximising mentorship: Variations in laboratory mentorship models implemented in Zimbabwe

BACKGROUND Laboratory mentorship has proven to be an effective tool in building capacity and assisting laboratories in establishing quality management systems. The Zimbabwean Ministry of Health and Child Welfare implemented four mentorship models in 19 laboratories in conjunction with the Strengthening Laboratory Management Toward Accreditation (SLMTA) programme. OBJECTIVES This study outline...