Information for Mentors
Thank you for being a Scholarly Project Mentor for our pediatric residents. As a mentor, you play a critical role in educating our residents and in helping them build skills in research and scholarship. We hope that through your efforts and dedication, all our residents have a meaningful experience with academic medicine and achieve their maximum potential as emerging leaders in the field. We also hope that as mentors, you derive personal satisfaction from your experience and feel supported in your role.
Additional Reading:
- Deriving Competencies for Mentors of Clinical and Translational Scholars
- Measuring the Effectiveness of Faculty Mentoring Relationships.
- Defining the ideal qualities of mentorship: a qualitative analysis of the characteristics of outstanding mentors.
- Training the next generation of research mentors: the University of California, San Francisco, Clinical & Translational Science Institute Mentor Development Program
- Identifying and aligning expectations in a mentoring relationship
- Having the right chemistry": A qualitative study of mentoring in academic medicine
- Nature’s guide for mentors
Expectations for Residents
- The ACGME requires all residents to participate in scholarly activities. The Scholarly Concentrations program is a residency requirement. During the course of their training, all residents are expected to:
- Ask a scholarly question
- Determine the appropriate methods for answering their question
- Carry out their scholarly project
- Disseminate their work in oral and written form
- Required Activities
- Apply to Scholarly Concentration area (January, PGY1)
- Complete CITI Training (June, PGY1)
- Submit Project Proposal Form to Project Mentor, Scholarly Concentration Leader and SC Program Director (December, PGY2)
- Submit and Present Abstract at Department of Pediatrics Annual Research Retreat (April, PGY3)
- Apply to Scholarly Concentration area (January, PGY1)
- Required Education
- Participate in Six Half-Day Research Retreats (Fall-Winter, PGY1-3)
- Participate in Core Educational Block Rotations Specific to Concentration Area (Fall, PGY2)
- Participate in Six Half-Day Research Retreats (Fall-Winter, PGY1-3)