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Finding Academic Mentors: Guidelines for New Faculty

Learn how to find mentors in academia with expert advice on role clarification, seeking mentors, and the benefits they provide such as socialization, teaching, and advocacy. This guide outlines steps to identify local, regional, and national mentors and how they can support your professional growth.

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Finding Academic Mentors: Guidelines for New Faculty

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  1. MentorsGuidelines for New Faculty Adapted from: Rogers JC, Holloway RL, Miller SM. Academic mentoring and family medicine’s research productivity. Family Medicine 1990; 22: 186-190.

  2. How Do You Find A Mentor?

  3. Step 1. • Know what your boss expects of you. • Tenure track or nontenure • Educator • Clinician or other service provider • Administrator • Researcher

  4. Step 2. • Clarify your role focus • One focus for nontenure track • Two foci for tenure track • Your role choices: • Educator • Clinician or other service provider • Administrator • Researcher

  5. Step 3. • Within your role focus, select a content area • Examples: • Cancer prevention • Complementary and alternative medicine • Women’s health • Mental health • Diabetes prevention • Adolescent health • Health behaviors

  6. Step 4. • Identify experts in your role focus • Local experts • Regional experts • National experts • It is not necessary for them to be familiar with your content area

  7. Step 5. • Identify experts in your content area • Local experts • Regional experts • National experts

  8. Step 6. • Actively seek out and engage these mentors • Note – they will not seek YOU • To help you with the following needs…

  9. Mentors Can Address Several Needs • Professional socialization • Role modeling • Nurturing • Teaching • Advocacy

  10. Professional Socialization • Help you to understand the academic environment • Broadens your perspective • Provide access to key people & resources • Help you develop role clarity

  11. Role Modeling • Provides intellectual stimulation • Involves you in one of his/her projects • Teaches by example • Provides examples of work/family balance

  12. Nurturing • Generates enthusiasm and confidence • Encourages the dream • Serves as a sounding board • Provides collegiality • Counsels you • Offers moral support • Helps with career planning • Provides reality testing

  13. Teaching • Helps you develop specific knowledge or skills • Provides constructive feedback • Coaches you • Acts as a taskmaster

  14. Advocacy • Provides sponsorship • Protects your time • Uses his/her reputation to foster your credibility • Uses his/her influence to promote your needs

  15. How Many Mentors? • As many as it takes! • One mentor generally does not perform all these functions.

  16. The Role of WFA • What are your needs for mentorship? • How can WFA facilitate?

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