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...

As mentoring programs have proliferated, considerable variation in approaches to programmatic mentoring has emerged. Concomitant confusion exists about the context, structure, and goals that constitute mentoring as a distinct intervention. This article presents a brief summary of what is currently known about different approaches to mentoring and proposes a framework that identifies both the co...

PURPOSE To examine relationships among having formal and informal mentors, mentoring behaviors, and satisfaction and productivity for academic medicine faculty. METHOD In 2005, the authors surveyed full-time faculty at the University of Minnesota Medical School to assess their perceptions of variables associated with job satisfaction and productivity. This analysis focused on perceptions of m...

Mentoring is a well known strategy used in many different disciplines. However, while it does commonly occur in the alcohol and other drugs (AOD) field, it appears that little has been published to specifically address mentoring relating to AOD work. There is, however, a considerable amount of mentoring literature produced by disciplines that have significant potential to respond to AOD issues,...

This report provides an overview of mentoring: the career enhancing and psychosocial functions, the stages of development in the mentoring relationship, and a selective review of the research literature. We argue that the traditional mentoring relationship is difficult to establish and maintain in a military environment for a number of reasons including the rank structure and job environment. T...

BACKGROUND Group mentoring has been endorsed as an effective method of supporting novice professionals across disciplines. In one university, faculty revised the undergraduate nursing curriculum to include a group mentoring course as a requirement of students during the four semesters they are enrolled in the nursing program. OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to explore the lived exper...

BACKGROUND Mentoring relationships, for all medical school faculty members, are an important component of lifelong development and education, yet an understanding of mentoring among medical school clinical faculty members is incomplete. This study examined associations between formal mentoring relationships and aspects of faculty members' engagement and satisfaction. It then explored the variab...

The authors delineate the importance of a mentoring relationship and recommend strategies for universities, mentors, and graduate students to encourage the effective mentoring of minority students. Specifically, functional mentoring is the cornerstone of succeeding in graduate studies and in one's career. The protégé receives benefits via networking and " academic guidance, career development, ...

This literature review provides a perspective for mentoring employees’ professional practices. Five mentoring factors have been identified from the literature that may have applications for induction and recruitment of employees (mentees). These mentoring factors (namely, personal attributes, system requirements, professional knowledge, modelling, and feedback) may have associated attributes an...

This article reports upon a mentoring self-review led by early childhood professional leaders working within the Central Kids Kindergarten Trust (Central Kids)1. It challenges the contemporary hierarchical, positional leader approach to mentoring and suggests that the power in the mentoring relationship needs to shift to a consultative and collaborative heterarchy leadership style. This comment...