GPS-STEM in collaboration with UCI’s Institute of Clinical & Translational Science (ICTS), Cancer Research Institute (CRI), Schools of Biological Sciences & Medicine, presents learning modules on effective mentoring. The focus of mentoring program is to ensure that everyone feel supported in their pursuit of satisfying & successful careers in academic research and beyond.
Why Mentoring? Effective mentoring is critical to the success of early-career researchers. Strong mentoring has been linked to
- Enhanced mentor-mentee productivity
- Career satisfaction & success
- Independence in research
Despite its importance, mentoring is typically learned by example, trial and error, and peer observation. Given this approach, mentor capabilities are highly variable. Current mentor development and training contrasts sharply with the contemporaneous rigor of instruction and assessment characteristic of competency-based and practice-centered education. In order to address the lack of structured mentoring, we plan to offer a comprehensive mentoring curriculum for early career researchers (PhD students, postdocs, research staff).
Mission: To ensure that everyone feels supported in their pursuit of satisfying and successful careers
Goals:
- Offer standardized mentoring training
- Best practices in mentoring
- Build mentoring relationships
Outcomes:
- Training on best practices in mentoring
- Improving mentoring culture/effective mentoring at UCI
- Ensuring trainee success in research career as well as professional development
For more information related to the course, please contact the course organisers (below).
Course Organizers:
Harinder Singh, PhD. GPS-STEM – Harinder.Singh@uci.edu
Vincent Caiozzo, PhD. ICTS – vjcaiozz@uci.edu
Marguerite Klumb, ICTS – mklumb@hs.uci.edu
Course Facilitators:
Katherine Thompson-Peer, PhD. Assistant Prof. Developmental & Cell Biology, UCI
Success & Outcomes of 2021 course offering:ExecutiveSummary
2021 Curriculum & Schedule: