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Mentoring Information

VCU Faculty Mentoring Guide

The Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Office of Faculty and Instructional Development has developed a Faculty Mentoring Guide which is available online.

AHA Mentoring Handbook

American Heart Association’s Mentoring Handbook focuses on general and specific aspects of the mentor-mentee relationship, concerns for clinical science, basic science, population sciences, and women and minorities in the areas of cardiovascular disease and stroke.

Mentoring Websites

University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine - Guidelines for Faculty Mentoring Program

Stanford University, School of Medicine; Faculty Mentoring Program

National Academy of Sciences - various mentoring handbooks

Association for Women in Science (AWIS) - information about the AWIS mentoring program

Mentor net – E-mentoring network for women in engineering and science

American Physiological Society mentoring site

Science Next Wave - An Electronic Network of the Next Generation of Scientists

AMWA "Woman2Woman Mentoring". American Medical Women's Association's mentoring program website features lessons learned from women physicians who've successfully crossed career and personal milestones by obtaining valuable advice, insight, and support.

The National Center for Leadership in Academic Medicine (NCLAM) has established a coordinated program to support junior M.D. and Ph.D. faculty through their initial years in academic medicine.The following are articles published by NCLAM members about the program demonstrating both good outcomes and cost effectiveness:

Deborah L. Wingard, Karen A. Garman, and Vivian Reznik. Facilitating Faculty Success: Outcomes and Cost Benefit of the UCSD National Center of Leadership in Academic Medicine. Acad Med 2004 79: S9-11S.

Karen A. Garman, Deborah L. Wingard, and Vivian Reznik. Development of Junior Faculty's Self-efficacy: Outcomes of a National Center of Leadership in Academic Medicine. Acad Med 2001 76: 74S-76S.

Saralyn Mark, Heather Link, Page S. Morahan, Linda Pololi, Vivian Reznik, and Susanne Tropez-Sims. Innovative Mentoring Programs to Promote Gender Equity in Academic Medicine. Acad Med 2001 76: 39-42.

Pololi L, Knight S. Mentoring of Faculty in Academic Medicine: A New Paradigm. J. General Internal Medicine. In press.

Pololi L, Knight S, Dunn K. Facilitating Scholarly Writing in Academic Medicine: Lessons Learned from a Collaborative Peer Mentoring Program. Journal of General Internal Medicine 2004;19:64-68

Pololi L, Knight S, Frankel R. Helping Medical School Faculty Realize Their Dreams: An Innovative Collaborative Mentoring Program. Academic Medicine. 2002; 77:377-384.