Mentorship Enrichment

Cultivating mentoring relationships is crucial to career growth and professional fulfillment. The Faculty Development Team strives to maintain a culture that actively encourages mentorship and continuously enhances mentor and mentee skills for all faculty. We create and sponsor programs to encourage high-quality, growth-oriented, and fair-minded mentoring relationships. Our programs include:

• Faculty-to-Faculty Mentoring Program through Icahn Connect
  In May, 2025, we launched an exciting, Sinai-wide program to facilitate mentor-mentee pairings between junior and senior faculty. This simple-to-use online platform suggests potential mentors to junior faculty by automated matching, based on the career needs and interests of the mentee. Faculty can also search for mentors using criteria that they specify. The system allows mentees to request mentors and mentors to accept mentoring requests. It provides tools to facilitate these relationships.
  
• Mentoring Training
  Once or twice a year, we offer a comprehensive workshop consisting of four 90-minute live sessions based, in part, on an empirically tested mentoring curriculum developed by the Center for the Improvement of Mentored Experiences in Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. All faculty who mentor trainees in the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences must complete mentor training. It is also required for many training grants.
  • The program goals are to:
    • Provide faculty with a forum for discussing mentoring challenges
    • Expose faculty to best practices in mentoring
    • Cultivate and promote a culture of strong mentorship for trainees at Mount Sinai
  • If you are submitting a grant and would like to mention this training program, please use the language we developed with the Grants and Contracts Office.
  • If you want to learn more about our Mentor Training program and attend our next training, please complete this brief form to register and receive emails about upcoming workshop dates.
• Mentoring Leaders
  Many department chairs have appointed a mentoring leader. These leaders meet three times a year to learn about the best practices for departments to develop and maintain strong mentorship among faculty.
• Mentorship Resources
  Offerings include individual development plans and tools for improving relationships between mentors and mentees.