Faculty Mentoring

Connecting Mentors and Mentees with Tools, Opportunities, and Training

Faculty Peer Mentoring Program

Mentoring groups allow for consultation and sharing of perspective that can foster new collegial relationships, career planning, skills development and lead to opportunities to meet faculty from other departments or fields. Effective peer mentor groups often form around a particular goal—for example, to offer support, guidance or feedback on a research topic or skill, clinical practice, advising and mentoring of trainees, teaching skills, and also on topics related to work-life balance and integration, career directions, priorities, navigating Stanford, preparing for the promotion process, or support for faculty who are in formal leadership positions for the first time.  These groups are meant to enhance the experience of early-career support and not a substitute for the mentoring taking place in the department or the assigned senior mentor.

Coaching for Clinician Educators

Stanford Medicine Clinician Educators and university staff are able to enroll in CoachHub, a coaching program for general personal and professional development offered through University Human Resources (UHR).

CoachHub is not intended to replace the faculty mentoring and coaching activities you participate in as a Clinical Assistant, Associate or (full) Professor within the School of Medicine, and does not provide faculty career advice related to academic promotion or academic medicine careers. It may be used for general personal and professional development. Visit the UHR CoachHub website to register for an upcoming session at the discounted $800 STAP fund rate:

  • March 17 for March 31-July 1, 2025 coaching period
  • April 14 for April 28-July 28, 2025 coaching period
  • May 12 for May 26-August 26, 2025 coaching period
Workshops & Events Calendar

Reflections on Mentorship

What is Mentoring?

Mentoring is a collaborative relationship with a defined, mutually agreed upon purpose. Mentors are commonly understood to fulfill two functions: career assistance, to enhance learning the ropes and preparing for academic success and promotion; and psychosocial support, to  enhance a sense of competence, belonging at Stanford, clarity of identity, and self-efficacy.

These two functions often stem from different roots and satisfy different outcomes. Faculty mentors serve many roles and no one mentor fits all possible roles.  Many faculty mentoring activities at Stanford occur through these multiple roles, in addition to formal programs and group mentoring.

Faculty Training Catalog

On behalf of the Office of Faculty Development and Diversity and the Office of Academic Affairs, we are happy to announce a new website intended for our School of Medicine faculty to access a centralized hub of go-to resources for professional development and faculty training opportunities at Stanford.