Mentoring is increasingly recognized as a critical element in supporting successful careers in academic research in medicine and related disciplines, particularly for trainees and early career investigators from underrepresented backgrounds. Mentoring is often executed ad hoc; there are limited programs to train faculty to become more effective mentors, and the few that exist have a dearth of e...

BACKGROUND The education and training of early career biomedical translational researchers often involves formal mentoring by more experienced colleagues. PURPOSES This study investigated the nature of these mentoring relationships from the perspective of mentees. The objective was to understand the challenges and issues encountered by mentees in forming and maintaining productive mentoring r...

Mentoring in academic medicine requires the trained mentor to commit time, purpose and dedication for the personal and professional development of three categories of protégés or mentees i.e. medical students, the clinician-trainee and the clinical-educator. Conventionally, assigned mentors monitor the progress of the first two categories of personnel as their career pathway is clearly defined....

Introduction The prevalence of diabetes mellitus is rapidly rising in SSA. Interventions are needed to support the decentralization of services to improve and expand access to care. We describe a clinical mentorship and quality improvement program that connected nurse mentors with nurse mentees to support the decentralization of type 2 diabetes care in rural Rwanda. Methods This is a descript...

An e-mentoring system is an online tool that enables interactive mentoring between a mentor and a mentee, regardless of place and time differences. This paper discusses the system design of an e-mentoring system for Malaysian orphans, called MyMentorMentee.com. The design of MyMentorMentee.com is an adaptation of Keller's ARCS Motivational model and uses its motivational elements to provide an ...

"Mentor" is a term widely used in academic medicine but for which there is no consensus on an operational definition. Further, criteria are rarely reported for evaluating the effectiveness of mentoring. This article presents the work of an Ad Hoc Faculty Mentoring Committee whose tasks were to define "mentorship," specify concrete characteristics and responsibilities of mentors that are measura...

Disabled individuals, women, and individuals from cultural/ethnic minorities continue to be underrepresented in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Research has shown that mentoring improves retention for underrepresented individuals. However, existing mentoring surveys were developed to assess the majority population, not underrepresented individuals. We describe the deve...

Ican still vividly recall the first national meeting I attended as a medical intern. Several personable dynamic hepatologists (Drs. Tavill, McCullough, and Mullen) guided me as the mentee among others who were also presenting research data. That first experience subsequently led me into a career in academic hepatology. Their efforts also set the stage early on for my desire to be a mentor. So m...

Since academic mentorship focuses on developing and supporting the next generation of pathologists as well as the existing faculty, it plays a vital role in creating a successful academic pathology department whose faculty deliver quality teaching, research, and clinical care. The central feature is the mentor-mentee relationship which is built on mutual respect, transparency, and a genuine int...

INTRODUCTION Mentoring is increasingly recognized as central to career development. Less attention has been paid, however, to how mentoring relationships evolve over time. To provide a more complete picture of these complex relationships, the authors explored mentoring from a mentee's perspective within the context of a three-year faculty development program in which the mentor provided specifi...