Mentorship Process
The benefits of mentorship are vast including research opportunities and guidance, professional development and career advancement. During Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine (PCCM) Fellowship, fellows develop their skills to become clinicians, proceduralists, teachers and researchers. Mentorship is an important cornerstone to all aspects of training. There are a variety of possible mentors including research (basic or clinical) advisors, clinicians/faculty with mutual interest in a specific area within or outside of PCCM.
Our mentoring program has both structure and expectations from both the mentor and mentee as outlined below. During the first year of fellowship, you will be mentored by the PD or APD. After this year, all fellows will identify a faculty mentor and confirm his/her interest and inform the program coordinator. The PD will help identify a mentor if the fellow is unable to do so.
The role of the mentor is to help guide the fellow to explore the available research opportunities as well as provide career guidance. The mentor should help the fellow determine the general area of research that best fits with the fellow's aptitudes and interests. Mentor and Mentee should meet at least once every other month and would perform a formal review of the mentoring relationship at least once every six months. This review would be available to the program director for the semi-annual evaluation.
Our three main objectives, which follows the AAMC Mentorship Guidelines, are:
- To facilitate positive academic and scholarly outcomes for trainees
- To enhance opportunities for collaboration and networking
- To foster a community of learning and scholarly inquiry