Mentor Consultation Service Mandana Khalili, MD
Program A mentoring unit of the CTSI Consultation Services to address mentoring issues Goal: Provide consultation for “mentoring problems”- concerns mentors and mentees may have about mentoring issues Free and confidential Initiated in May 2011
Description Mentoring resources Mentoring challenges/problems Leadership strategies Academic advancement Other mentoring issues
Infrastructure Unit Director: Mandana Khalili Consultants: Jeanette Brown Mitch Feldman Cynthia Harper Joseph Guglielmo Emmanuelle Waubant Jim Kahn Kathryn Lee Stuart Gansky Judith Moskowitz Mehrdad Arjomandi Laurence Huang Laura Bull Kristine Yaffe Lesiee Subak New member: Alicia Fernandez: Diversity expert
Consultation Topics Academic advancement Mentoring challenges and problems, Mentoring resources Leadership strategies Challenges with obtaining funding Ethics regarding funding/career opportunities
Promotional activities for this service in 2012 Increase advertising for the service through: Assistance from the MDP directors/assistant directors by emailing schools/ research meeting, faculty development meeting New faculty orientation CTSI advertising by disseminating a story on MCS and its purpose Plans are in place to present at Feb faculty career development meeting
Discussion How was it to be a MoM? Areas for improvement? How else to get the word out? How can we increase the utilization of the service? Any ideas? Get more MOM’s? Other ideas? Thank you!!