Styles of Mentoring

One-on-One Mentoring

One-on-one mentoring, for the purpose of our program, was developed by combining the general principles in the University of California, Davis, School of Medicine Faculty Mentoring Program and the Helzberg Entrepreneurial Program. This style combines a career mentor with additional project mentors as needed.  

Team Mentoring

Team mentoring is recommended to meet the various needs in research, collaborative research and clinical care. The team supports the needs of the mentee and is overseen by the career mentor.

We believe mentoring succeeds best when a team approach is established from the beginning.  Our recommended program is based upon the successful mentoring program, “The School of Hard Knocks,” developed by Dr. Curt Klaassen as Chair of the Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology, and Therapeutics. The research/scholarship mentoring team consists of a minimum of 4 mentors for 1 mentee and includes 1 research mentoring team leader, a minimum of 2 mentors for research skills and projects, and 1 mentor for teaching skills.  The team members are asked to assist the mentee with specific aims, start up for research in translational studies, laboratory work, policy development, epidemiological studies or other areas of scholarship.  Additional project mentors may be invited to serve on the team.

Layered and Group Mentoring

Layered and group mentoring are recommended to meet the various needs in research, collaborative research and clinical care when a department does not have enough faculty members to establish one-on-one or teams as previously described. Examples of layered and group mentoring are described in Appendix 1, Sample 5 on page 32-33.