Mentoring skills are essential for productive, healthy relationships between mentors and trainees. We host a workshop twice each year for faculty to connect with other Sinai mentors and learn new skills for mentoring. We are always interested in your suggestions for the topics we should cover. Email OFD@mssm.edu to let us know how we can help.
The curriculum is a discussion-based interactive course designed to teach faculty how to mentor in a culturally responsive manner and covers themes including aligning expectations between trainees and mentors, addressing equity and inclusion, building and communicating a mentoring philosophy and plan, initiating and maintaining effective communications, promoting mentee research independence and professional development, and fostering well-being of trainees.
Goals
The goals of the workshop are to:
- Provide faculty with a forum for discussing mentoring challenges
- Expose faculty to best practices in mentoring
- To cultivate and promote a culture of strong mentorship for trainees at Mount Sinai
- If you are developing a training grant and would like to know whether this workshop might be right for your faculty, please reach out to Ki Goosens at ki.goosens@mssm.edu