Mentoring Resources
Rutgers Connection Network (RCN) – The Rutgers faculty mentoring program designed to advance a culture of mentoring and inclusion at Rutgers and increase the engagement and scholarly productivity of Rutgers faculty by providing the infrastructure, training, and facilitation to enable effective and collaborative mentoring partnerships beyond the departmental level.
RBHS Faculty Affairs Faculty Development – Faculty development resources.
Rutgers Office of Teaching Evaluation and Assessment Research (OTEAR) Teaching Tips: https://otear.rutgers.edu/teaching/teaching_tips
CIMER – See https://cimerproject.org is a project sponsored by the University of Wisconsin to provide resources in support of improving mentoring relationships. In addition, the University of Wisconsin clinical and translational research site contains resources, samples, and validated survey instruments for mentees, mentors, departments, and institutions: https://ictr.wisc.edu/mentoring/
National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity – NCFDD is an independent professional development organization dedicated to helping faculty, post-docs, and graduate students thrive in the academy through online career development, training, and mentoring resources.
National Research Mentoring Network (NRMN) – An online community and resource dedicated to help you develop your career through diverse, collaborative mentorship. It is open to researchers across all career stages in the biomedical, behavioral, clinical, and social sciences.
For an overview on this topic, download a free copy of NASEM’s The Science of Effective Mentorship in STEMM (2019) here: https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/25568/the-science-of-effective-mentorship-in-stemm
NRMN-CAN – Mission Statement: To leverage CIC/Big Ten Academic Alliance resources to provide professional development, grantwriting, and mentor training to Early Stage Investigators from underrepresented populations and to assist mentors in developing core competencies for mentor facilitating and grantwriting coaching.
An online mentoring series developed by the University of Minnesota’s Clinical and Translational Science Institute (could be used to augment and document continued training external to the host institution, e.g):
https://ctsi.umn.edu/training/mentors/mentor-training
AAMC Mentoring Resources: (1) Compact Between Postdoctoral Appointees and their Mentors PDF Document. (2) Appropriate Treatment of Research Trainees PDF Document.
An online mentor/mentee agreement developed by Vanderbilt University can be found here and is highly customizable: https://edgeforscholars.org/getting-expectations-in-line-with-an-online-mentoring-agreement/
And even more guides developed by academic medical units:
https://cfe.smhs.gwu.edu/mentoring-checklists
https://medschool.vcu.edu/media/medschool/documents/MentorshipManual.pdf
https://depts.washington.edu/fammed/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/UP-Mentoring-Guide-FINAL.pdf