Mentoring: Being a Mentor and Being a Mentee (Presented with AAWR)

Multiple studies have shown that mentorship is critical to academic advancement and success. Effective mentoring enhances career satisfaction, helps to develop interpersonal and leadership skills, and promotes networking for both the mentee and mentor. However, building and more importantly maintaining a healthy relationship necessitates effort on the part of both mentee and mentor. Following short didactic presentations from the perspectives of mentee and mentor, we will interactively work through several case-based scenarios that capture some of the more challenging obstacles that might be encountered in such a relationship. By the end of the session, participants will gain a better understanding as to how to successfully navigate this relationship and ultimately transform such relationships into sponsorship, and possibly even life-long friendship.