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Guidance for Users
The Mentorship in Clinical and Translational Research digital guide includes six sections of content, outlined below. If you are exploring these resources for self-reflection, we recommend moving through each of the sections in order. If you are looking for resources to support a particular aspect of your mentoring relationship(s), use the outline provided below to navigate to relevant content.
Mentors, Mentoring Program Leaders, and T32 Grant Program Leaders: Visit Implement Our Resources for detailed guidance on how to integrate these resources into longitudinal mentoring relationships or structured mentoring programs.
Goals
- Understand that mentoring relationships are valuable at every phase of a clinical and translational research career.
- Recognize that mentoring needs and expectations evolve throughout career stages.
- Understand that knowing yourself (e.g. your goals, values, work styles, and definition of success) facilitates effective mentoring.
- Appreciate the need for a dynamic mentoring network.
- Understand that mentoring relationships have mutual responsibilities and benefits for both the mentee and mentor.
- Recognize that productive mentoring relationships have structure and follow a lifecycle.
- Recognize how to assess mentoring relationships.
Outline and Learning Outcomes
After navigating the Explore Our Framework section of the guide, you will be able to:
- Define characteristics and actions that foster effective mentee-mentor relationships.
After navigating the Understand Mentoring Needs section of the guide, you will be able to:
- Recognize that mentoring supports career and life success.
- Describe how mentoring needs evolve throughout a career.
After navigating the Know Yourself section of the guide, you will be able to:
- Craft your personal definition of success.
- Leverage tools to guide your self-reflection on who you are, what you value, and how you work best.
- Prepare for career development conversations with your mentor.
- Articulate the value you bring to a mentoring relationship.
- Advocate for the expertise and support you need to excel.
After navigating the Cultivate Mentoring Relationships section of the guide, you will be able to:
- Describe the typical phases of a mentoring relationship.
- Leverage mentoring agreement documents to establish mutual expectations at the start of a mentoring relationship.
- Recognize the value of effective communication in maintaining mentoring relationships.
- Access resources for avoiding and resolving conflict within mentoring relationships.
- List strategies mentees and mentors can use to advocate and foster independence.
- Describe methods to assess progress in mentoring relationships.
- Recognize that productive mentoring relationships have defined end-points.
After navigating the Build a Mentoring Network section of the guide, you will be able to:
- Define the roles typically represented in a dynamic mentoring network.
- Map out your developmental mentoring network.
- Recognize best practices for preparing for, engaging in, and locating networking opportunities.
- Describe how to identify and reach out to a new potential mentor.
After navigating the Assess Mentoring Relationships section of the guide, you will be able to:
- Appreciate that assessment, both of the mentor and the mentee, is a critical tool that can help mentoring relationships thrive.
- Recognize that assessment in mentoring relationships may take many forms including self-reflection, ongoing conversation, and formal evaluation.
- Explore published survey instruments used to evaluate mentorship.
- Identify strategies to create your own assessments that align with your mentoring audience and goals.
Explore Our Framework
Characteristics and actions that foster effective mentee-mentor relationships.
Understand Mentoring Needs
Learn how mentoring needs evolve throughout a career.
Know Yourself
Tools to discover who you are, what you value, and how you work best.
Cultivate Mentoring Relationships
Explore the phases of a mentoring relationship.
Build a Mentoring Network
Discover & map your mentoring network
Assess Mentoring Relationships
Tools for assessing mentoring relationships.