FACULTY MENTOR TRAINING SERIES

The Faculty Mentor Training Program focuses on effective communication, aligning expectations, equity and inclusion, mentoring for professional & career development, and supporting trainees in developing foundational skills. Co-sponsored by the Office of Faculty Affairs and Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs.

 

Program Details

Sessions scheduled quarterly In-Person from 12 PM – 1:30 PM. Session descriptions and registeration information below. Lunch Provided!
Faculty Mentor Training Series

The BSD Faculty Mentor Training Program focuses on effective communication, aligning expectations, equity, and inclusion, mentoring for professional & career development, and supporting trainees in developing foundational skills.

2023 - 2024 Session Schedule

The Faculty Mentor Training Program focuses on effective communication, aligning expectations, equity and inclusion, and supporting trainees. To make these sessions as useful as possible, this year’s sessions will focus on discussions of real-world concerns, and in Winter and Spring, we plan to meet in person over lunch for active discussion.

Autumn Quarter

Effective Mentor-Mentee Communication

Join us for more information on establishing and communicating mutually beneficial expectations for the mentoring relationship; aligning mentee and mentor expectations; how personal and professional differences may influence expectations.

Friday, December 8, 2023

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Winter Quarter

Mental Health First     Aid for Faculty       

This virtual session will share data on student mental health and highlight some of the warning signs and symptoms of a mental health concern or emotional crisis. It will cover key campus resources and include group discussions to give faculty participants the skills to help someone who is experiencing a mental health concern. 

Wednesday, February 21, 2024

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Spring Quarter

Culturally Aware Mentoring

Learn how diversity influences mentor-mentee interactions; recognizing the potential impact of conscious and unconscious assumptions; strategies for learning about, recognizing, and addressing issues of equity and inclusion.

Friday, April 26, 2024

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Program History

Previous Programs in this series:

Mentoring: Not Cloning, Not Supervising

Dr. Keith Yamamoto, Vice Chancellor for Science Policy and Strategy, Director of Precision Medicine, and Professor of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, University of California – San Francisco. 

The Faculty Mentor Training Program was launched on November 14, 2019 with a seminar on trainee mentorship with Keith Yamamoto, PhD.  Dr. Yamamoto recently served on the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Revitalizing Graduate STEM Education for the 21st Century and previously served as co-PI of UCSF’s BEST (Broadening Experiences in Science Training) award.  He has also led or served on numerous national committees focusing on public and scientific policy, support of biological research, as well as science education. Please join us for this session as Dr. Yamamoto speaks on the topic of Mentorship in Academia.

Keith Yamamoto, PhD, UCSF

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