Other research involving interviews with 100 clinician investigators and 28 of their mentors also revealed that a single mentor could not fulfill the diverse mentoring requirements [ 47].
Below, important aspects of the papers reviewed are discussed, addressing the issues of appreciation of mentoring, requirements for mentors and mentees, effects of mentoring programs, shortcomings, and suggestions for the design of future mentoring programs.
She noted that NSF has a mentoring requirement for grants that engage postdoctoral researchers, and suggested that there is no reason why this provision could not be extended to graduate and undergraduate students.
"The report should be a valuable resource for institutions across the country as a stimulus for motivating improvements in admissions processes, financial support, advising and mentoring, degree requirements, professional development and career advising, and ultimately completion," Russel said.
In our opinion, e-mentoring lacks the essential requirements for mentoring, i.e. that the mentorship should encompass the mentor's personal commitment to the mentee's personal and professional development and career advancement.
With the support and guidance of Professor (and unofficial MechE "maker czar") Martin Culpepper and Professor Anette Peko Hosoi, who is also MechE's associate department head for education, MechE students have recruited mentors, identified equipment requirements, developed safety procedures, solicited funding, managed staffing, designed community events, and much more.
Further details on the program, our mentors, goals, and requirements are described on our Web site or can be obtained directly by writing to Ms. Lois Mulligan, Queen's University Cancer Research Institute, Department of Pathology, Richardson Labs, Queen's University, Kingston ON Canada, K7L 3N6.
Mentees were matched with a mentor who they had either nominated, by browsing 'pen portraits' of available mentors, or were matched in a 'clinic' run by the scheme organiser (ACI) - in which 17 potential mentees were interviewed and matched to appropriate mentors according to their seniority level and requirements from mentoring.
The NSF 09-29 revision changes the requirements for mentoring activities for postdocs, for proposals that requests funding to support postdoctoral researchers.
With feedback provided directly from the field through various committees and surveys, we clearly defined the requirements of mentors, incentives for mentees and the frequency of mentor-mentee meetings, along with monthly and quarterly group discussions and check-ins on progress.
A significant factor in mentoring programs is the requirement that volunteers commit themselves to a relatively long period of time.
