Mentoring Resources

There are no hard and fast rules for a mentoring relationship -- flexibility and commitment are the keys to success. A search on the Internet will provide you with a wealth of resources to help make your mentoring experience a success. Here are just a few:

The Peer Resources website, www.peer.ca/peer.html, contains member-only materials, but nonmembers may access a number of documents, articles and other data about mentoring at no cost.

The Mentoring Group website, www.mentoringgroup.com, offers tips for mentors and partners as well as descriptions of training guides and materials for getting mentoring programs up and running.

The Diversity Connection website, www.diversityconnection.org, provides services to link qualified health professionals to each other and to job opportunities. Connects diverse individuals to leadership and mentoring programs in a variety of healthcare settings and serves as a job search database for minority management candidates in healthcare services.

The Preparing Future Faculty website, www.preparing-faculty.org, is sponsored by the Pew Charitable Trusts and is a collaborative effort of the Association of American Colleges and Universities and the Council of Graduate Schools. It consists of a national network of 108 colleges and universities organized into 15 clusters led by a doctoral institution. Although each cluster of institutions has a different approach, they all provide graduate students with a variety of opportunities to enhance their careers as academics. Most of the universities include mentoring with faculty as a primary strategy to develop career skills, attitudes, and professional experiences.