Optimizing Your Mentoring Relationship: A Toolkit for Mentors and Mentees.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Mentorship is a vital component of academic and professional development. Mentees report positive impacts from mentorship programs, yet institutions and societies may struggle to meet their mentees' needs due to factors such as mentor fatigue and lack of mentor training. To address this in our own professional society, the Association of Pediatric Program Directors, we developed a mentor toolkit in order to utilize a variety of mentoring models, provide faculty development for midlevel mentors, and offer guidance to mentees.

Methods

Most of these tools were designed to be administered in an interactive format such as a workshop or seminar with think-pair-share opportunities. The toolkit begins by providing a definition of mentoring and reinforcing the ben

SUBMITTER: Aylor M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6464436 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature