Mentoring and Professional Life-skills

Mentoring and the Mentor-Mentee Relationship

Resources for Mentors and Mentees in the Biomedical Sciences.

Click on these links to access a repository of useful resources for Mentors and Mentees in the Biomedical Sciences

• Providing and Receiving mentorship

  • Some wise counsel from "The Serial Mentor" 

• Council of Graduate Schools Mentoring Guide

• Making the Most of Mentors: A Guide for Mentees (Judy Zerzan, GIM UC Denver)

• Climbing the academic ladder

• Selection of Research Mentors for K funded Scholars

• Mentoring Translational Science Investigators

• Mentoring K scholars: strategies to support research mentors

• 7 keys to mentoring succes

• VCU career development manual

• Health Leadership Mentoring guide

• Curriculum in career development mentoring

• Determinants of academic success

• Mentoring - Follow the leader

• UPenn Mentoring Guide

• Informal Mentoring Study

• Career development in P/CC medicine

• The making of a physician-scientist

• Pay It Forward: Guidance for Mentoring Junior Scholars; William T. Grant Foundation

• How to Pick a Lab: Creating Bonding in the lab

UC Denver provides a valuable Tenure Track Faculty Mentoring Program

• • Take time to review the Strategies for Success Manual

• Behind every great star: a mentoring guide for school of medicine faculty and administrators

Professional Personal development and Life skills Curriculum

Life skills curriculum for Fellows in Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine

• 1. Professional motivators – defining ones role as a subspecialist in P/CC; The role of a consultant (60min)

  2. Emotional intelligence and Work-life balance. Managing anger, stress and avoiding burnout (90min)

  3. Leadership in clinical and academic medicine (60min)

  4. Advance life planning – financial: Disability and Life insurance, Retirement and College Savings (90min)

  5. Advance life planning – personal affairs: Wills and testaments, career negotiation skills, relationships at work, peer support (90min)

  6. Mentorship and the mentor-mentee relationship; pursuing a career in biomedical investigation (60min)

  7. Counseling, spiritual intelligence and end-of-life care management (60min)

  8. Keeping it straight: identifying, avoiding and managing conflict of interest (60min)

References: http://www.lifeskillsfordoctors.com/library.asp

(A) Life in Academic Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine  - Presentation to SOM MD applicants