Career Skills │ Mentoring: How to be Your Best Advocate for Mentoring

Saturday, December 4, 2021
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OVERVIEW:

This session helps you maximize the benefits of mentorship along your career.

One of the largest challenges trainees face is in developing their mentoring network. Many trainees tend to rely heavily on their faculty advisors as their sole source of mentoring. Additionally, trainees and junior faculty may require guidance in terms of setting realistic and advantageous clinical and academic goals.

In this presentation, the speakers:  

  1. Provide strategies to enable trainees and junior faculty to serve as their best advocate for mentoring 
  2. Help to optimize the mentor-mentee relationship 
  3. Create a large network with different functions for each mentor 

Speakers will dedicate time for input from participants to address some of their greatest concerns for an optimal mentor/mentee relationship. 

Learning Objectives:

Following participation in this activity, participants will be able to:  

  • Rely less on a sole mentor and set realistic and advantageous goals 
  • Enact strategies to expand their mentoring network 
  • Identify ways to optimize the mentor-mentee relationship 

Program:

Chairs: Patricia Dugan, MD, MacKenzie Howard, PhD, and Joaquin Lugo, PhD, FAES 

Introduction 

How to Rely Less on a Sole Mentor | MacKenzie Howard, PhD 

Not a Ladder, but a Lattice: Navigating the Early Years as a Clinician-Investigator | Anli Liu, MD 

 How to Optimize Your Mentor-Mentee Relationship | Joaquin Lugo, PhD, FAES 

Activity Type
Professional Development
Credit
Non-CME
Format
In person
Career Stage
Early Career (typically 0-5 years from completion of training)
Mid-Career (typically 6-15 years from completion of training)
Audience
Clinicians
Scientists/Researchers
Advanced Practice Providers
Fellows/Trainees
Demographic
Clinical
Research
First-time Attendees
Young Professionals