National Leadership Workshop on Mentoring Women in Biomedical Careers

• About the Workshop
• Purpose and Goals
• Planning Committee
• Final Agenda
• Posters
• Table-Talk
• Concurrent Workshops
• Other Mentoring Resources

Workshop Session I: Can Mentoring Be Taught? Training of Mentors and Mentees

Chair: Eugene P. Orringer, M.D., Professor of Medicine, Executive Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Faculty Development, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine
Co-Chair: Morris Weinberger, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Health Policy and Administration, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health

Participants

• Leslie Parise, PhD, Professor & Chair, Department of Biochemistry (Mentor)
• Julie Brittain, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry & BIRCWH Scholar (Mentee)
• Janet Rubin, MD, Professor of Internal Medicine (Endocrinology) (Mentor)
• Margaret Gourlay, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Family Medicine (Mentee)
• Maria Escolar, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (Mentee)

Brief summary

Our goal is to describe the Office of Research and Faculty Development here at UNC-Chapel Hill and to show how our BIRCWH Program as well as several other junior faculty development programs have facilitated the success of our young people and the development of successful mentoring teams. We have invited two separate mentors-mentee teams to take part in this workshop. One of the teams has a basic science orientation, whereas the other is more clinical research-oriented. We have asked each member of these groups to give a brief description of their own research. They will then discuss their prior experience as mentors & mentees, and the growth and development of these particular mentor-mentee relationships. They will talk about what it takes to be a good mentor and mentee respectively. We hope to demonstrate that specific content expertise is not an absolute requirement for one to be an effective mentor. We will also discuss how to integrate clinician and non-clinician scientists into mentoring teams. Finally, we will discuss how we have attempted to train our mentees to become mentors and to do so early in their careers. This latter issue is something that we believe is absolutely essential in today’s highly competitive environment.

 

 

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