Geoff Morrell, the Pentagon press secretary, said one of the messages that Mr. Gates would deliver here was that allies should contribute training and mentoring teams "in as timely a manner as possible" to rapidly shift momentum against the insurgency.
Although we encouraged mentoring teams to offer their clients entry to the trial, we found evidence of selection bias.
Of the 765 individuals referred to mentoring teams during the recruitment period, the research team was able to identify 374 people who were eligible for mentoring, had been assessed by a mentor and who subsequently received the service.
There is now an impressive body of knowledge addressing the health human resource deficit in Africa, how to raise morale, which incentives work, task-shifting, supportive supervision, mentoring teams and so on [ 20].
It also included private backers, such as angel investors John Tan and Darius Cheung who had mentored the team since its time with JFDI Asia.
After completing an initial application, those who go to the next stage take part in an assessment day, led by the current mentor team.
Captain Swenson was serving alongside Corporal Meyer on that day as an embedded adviser with the Afghan Border Police Mentor Team, according to an Army news release published last month.
The mentor team must then convince the selection committee that they will collaborate.
You should expect to develop a "mentoring team" consisting of experts in different dimensions of science.
But even when all is going well, you might need to make a change in your mentoring team to meet your changing needs--particularly if your work crosses discipline boundaries, the hallmark of the clinical and translational science fields.
Students work with a multidisciplinary mentoring team to develop research projects and take on a core curriculum that includes rotations in bench science, patient-based clinical research, and population-based research.
