The CTSI Research Mentor Academy is a 10-session virtual training program designed to support the mentoring professional development of Enterprise research faculty. This educational offering provides an interdisciplinary, cohort-style learning experience where mid-career and senior clinical and translational researchers explore evidence-based mentoring practices and develop personalized strategies to support mentees in various contexts across the health system.
Academy sessions are designed to emphasize interdisciplinary exchange and experiential learning to support skill development. They consist of a mix of brief lectures, discussion, small group activities, and expert guest presentations. Over the course of the 10-sessions, participants produce a custom mentoring toolkit consisting of a mentoring philosophy statement and two or more other resources tailored to individual needs and interest with feedback from academy facilitators and guest speakers.
Session topics include:
- Establishing Mentoring Relationships
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Mentoring in Basic Science Research (guest facilitator)
- Navigating Career Development and Work-Life Integration
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Mentoring in Clinical Research (guest facilitator)
- Mentoring Across Differences
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Mentoring in Translational Research (guest facilitator)
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Mentoring for Staff and Non-faculty Researchers (guest facilitator)
- Foundations of Effective Research Mentoring
- Evaluating Mentoring and Sustaining Impact
Mentor Academy satisfies the requirement for formal faculty mentoring training included in many NIH training grants.
The Research Mentor Academy is held each fall and the RFA is released in late spring.
