Research mentor training: initiatives of the University of Wisconsin Institute for Clinical and Translational Research.

VOLUME 6 • ISSUE 4 WWW.CTSJOURNAL.COM T he University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW) has served as a hub of multidisciplinary expertise in both research mentor and mentee training and evaluation, with long-standing, federally funded eff orts to support innovative practice, training interventions, and research to improve training programs for diverse scholars in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine (STEMM). Ten years ago, the Wisconsin Program for Scientifi c Teaching, codirected by Drs. Pfund, Miller, and Handelsman, led an eff ort to train future biology faculty to become more eff ective research mentors. Cohorts of biology graduate students, postdoctoral trainees, faculty, and staff met to discuss mentoring challenges and solutions, generating case studies and discussion questions along the way. Following evaluation and revision, these materials were published as Entering Mentoring, 1