Mentoring Programs

In addition to the Council of Mentors for junior faculty, SCCTER aims to improve the tools available for matching mentors with trainees at all levels.  This will be accomplished through two main efforts:

1. Create and maintain a searchable database of all students, trainees, and CTR personnel at Stanford University and Stanford University Medical Center.  The ultimate goal will be to create a centralized and well-maintained CTR trainee database that contains trainee specific demographic and programmatic information across the enterprise will improve coordination and greatly facilitate the assessment and tracking of CTR educational programs. This will be accomplished through the Translational Informatics Program, and will be based on the Community Academic Profile system.
2. Provide mentor matching and training services. Trainees searching for mentors will receive descriptions of mentor interaction styles, and faculty evaluations will include how well their advising behavior conforms to these descriptions as well as to other School-wide expectations. SCCTER will also develop an introductory survey course in which professors talk about their research, the review process for papers, what teaching is like, how to write a grant, what the PhD process is like, and how to prepare a course and develop a syllabus. Finally, a program for training faculty from different Departments and Schools on best practices in student advising will be developed.