Mentoring
Mentoring activities will focus on creating and promoting an environment that fosters career development and advancement in clinical and translational research. The ultimate goal is a transformative change to an environment that actively, collectively and explicitly promotes professional advancement through mentorship. We will promote the value and essential priority of mentoring in the advancement of clinical and translational research, and create programs that enhance mentoring skills for individuals at all levels of faculty development recognizing that the next generation of mentors are those individuals currently in the early to mid-career stage.
Society of Mentors
The society will consist of a cadry of established and emerging clinical and translational research mentors from all colleges across the MUSC campus. Society members will be active participants in the training and professional development of SCTR students and junior faculty.
Annual symposium
This structured program is designed to delineate the roles and appropriate expectations of both mentor and mentee, define and describe effective mentoring relationships and teach specific mentoring skills. We have developed specific learning objectives and the program is designed to develop and enhance skills of mentors and to identify and refine the expectations of the mentees.
Searchable mentor database (Collexis)
Collexis technology is a proprietary software program that pulls key concepts from text and uses controlled vocabularies to create expert profiles of people, departments and entire universities. It also enables researchers to quickly and accurately search databases (e.g. PubMed) to find domain specific information (e.g. stroke, cancer) and to search for collaborators and content area experts. (Click here to search Collexis)
