Division of Biology and Medicine
Postdocs and Early Career Programs

Mentorship

Find tools for building and maintaining successful mentor-mentee relationships.

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Mentorship

Find tools for building and maintaining successful mentor-mentee relationships.

Professional Development Tools

The supervising faculty member plays a critical role in shaping the training experience of their postdoctoral appointees, as well as promoting their career advancement. The resources below are intended to help support the mentoring relationship and develop faculty as mentors.

Individual Development Plans

All postdoctoral trainees are required to complete and submit an IDP to both their mentor and the PECP at the time of their initial appointment and annually thereafter.

Mentoring Training Program

The Mentoring Training Program is a 9-hour peer-driven program offered through Advance RI-CTR. It delivers the evidence-based curriculum developed by NRMN and CIMER, and has trained over 210 faculty at Brown University and the University of Rhode Island.

Culturally Aware Mentoring Training

Coming Soon!  Building on the evidence-based mentoring curriculum developed by NRMN and CIMER, this training will guide faculty mentors to understand the sources and impact of bias on diverse mentees to improve the training environment for individuals from underrepresented groups. Brown facilitators are in training to deliver this at Brown.

Additional Resources

AAMC - Appropriate Treatment of Research Trainees (AToRT) resource

The AAMC Appropriate Treatment of Research Trainees (AToRT) resource provides additional guidance on establishing a supportive training environment. Dean Van Wart served on the AAMC Working Group that developed this resource, to promote principles of leadership, professionalism, and equity, and to help ensure the training experience is free from inappropriate behaviors.
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