This web page provides resources on faculty mentoring for those new to this topic as well as those already involved in a mentoring program. MSU resources and general resources covering a range of issues are followed by mentoring resources for specific academic areas and faculty members. Links are given for extensive bibliographies and mentoring programs at higher education institutions in the U...

The value of mentoring for career development is widely recognized by researchers and practitioners. For women, being mentored is particularly valuable for their career growth. However, the reality is that professional women continue to encounter challenges men do not, both in finding mentors and in building healthy mentoring relationships. In this chapter, the authors examine how e-mentoring c...

BACKGROUND Integrated Modular Teaching program was introduced at Foundation University Medical College in 2009. The concept of integrated modular teaching was new to the faculty and students. A need was felt by Department of Medical Education for establishing a mentoring system in order to have a better understanding of students' problem, to provide them continuous support and to make them sail...

GLOBAL e-MENTORING: OVERCOMING VIRTUAL DISTANCE FOR ANEFFECTIVE MENTORING RELATIONSHIPby NANCY PHILIPPARTMay 2014Advisor: Dr. Ratna Babu ChinnamMajor: Industrial EngineeringDegree: Doctor of PhilosophyMentoring can enhance an employee’s career development and advancement but traditionalface-to-face mentoring has become less relevant because of globalization, incr...

The literature on workplace training highlights that the mentoring program is an important employee development method practiced in successful organizations. The ability of mentors either informally or formally to implement the mentoring program activities may lead to higher individuals’ psychosocial support and career development. The nature of this relationship is interesting, but the role of...

BACKGROUND Peer mentoring is a powerful pedagogical approach for supporting undergraduate medical students in their learning environment. However, it remains unclear what exactly peer mentoring is and whether and how undergraduate medical students use social media for peer-mentoring activities. OBJECTIVE We aimed at describing and exploring the Facebook use of undergraduate medical students d...

Purpose Mentoring is considered a valuable component of undergraduate medical education with a variety of programs at established medical schools. This study presents how new medical schools have set up mentoring programs as they have developed their curricula. Methods Administrators from 14 US medical schools established since 2006 were surveyed regarding the structure and implementation of th...

This study developed and tested a model that posited employability and job performance as intervening variables in the relationship between receipt of mentoring and career success. Participants were 207 Information Technology (IT) professionals employed in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in three European countries. Mentoring receipt was related to both employability and job performan...

Mentoring can be a key component contributing to the success of faculty. We investigated the attitudes of family medicine department Chairs toward mentoring, with emphasis on mentoring female and minority faculty. This qualitative inquiry used semi-structured interviews with 13 Chairs of US departments of family medicine. Although most Chairs felt that mentoring had value, a minority of our sam...

This web page provides resources on faculty mentoring for those new to this topic as well as those already involved in a mentoring program. MSU resources and general resources covering a range of issues are followed by mentoring resources for specific academic areas and faculty members. Links are given for extensive bibliographies and mentoring programs at higher education institutions in the U...