Abstract A successful mentoring relationship can bring significant benefits to the mentee in terms of academic research productivity and career satisfaction. Through their mentees, mentors also traverse new fulfilling directions. Here, we reflect on our own mentor-mentee from both vantage points. We offer advice how choose a mentee/mentor, what each person needs relationship, changes with time....

Mentors without Borders is a proposed international mentoring network that allows trainee geneticists to identify mentors from a list of volunteers who are not at one's own institution. It is an experiment, a matchmaker between a junior and a senior professional. These mentors do not replace the mentors at the home institution but allow the mentee, if desired, to identify mentors outside of the...

This Western Trauma Association Presidential Address is about my mentor program. It outlines some background material on mentorship and the results of an alumni mentee survey.

BACKGROUND Mentorship has been found as a key factor for a successful and satisfying career in academic medicine and surgery. The present study was conducted to describe the current situation of mentoring in the surgical community in Switzerland and to evaluate sex differences regarding the impact of mentoring on career success and professional satisfaction. METHODS The study was designed as ...

MEET THE NAMS MENTORSHIP PROGRAM The idea of a Mentorship Program sponsored by The North American Menopause Society (NAMS) was hatched during a brainstorming session of the NAMS Research Affairs (RAF) Committee in 2008. The question on the table was how to increase the quantity and quality of menopause research and at the same time support or launch early careers in research. Pauline M. Maki, P...