Mentoring Program Virtual Binder

On this page: Templates, Manuals, and Tools | Background Documents |  UCSF Resources | External Resources | Publications

See also the Mentoring Program Event Archive for presentations on important topics for UCSF mentees, trainees, and early career investigators, including the UCSF research environment, grant writing, and life-work issues.

Templates, Manuals, and Tools

• Faculty Handbook for Success, Advancement and Promotion at UCSF
  Includes guidelines on establishing mentoring relationships and specifies mentoring criteria for career advancement at UCSF.
• Gladstone Institutes Postdoctoral Fellows Program Mentoring Standards
  J. David Gladstone Institutes.
• Mentoring-IDP-for-Mentors-Mentees.pdf Sample Individual Development Plan. UCSF-Gladstone CFAR.
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  Mentor Orientation and Guidelines
  Christine Des Jarlais, Assistant Dean for Graduate Outreach and Postdoctoral Affairs, UCSF. 2004.
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  Model Reference Letter for K23 Award
  A high-impact reference letter to support a mentee's K23 Award application. Ruth Greenblatt, MD, Professor of Clinical Medicine and Epidemiology; Associate Director, UCSF-Gladstone CFAR.
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  Model Reference Letter for Masters Program
  An exemplar reference letter to support a mentee's application to the UCSF Masters Entry Program in Nursing. Ruth Greenblatt, MD, Professor of Clinical Medicine and Epidemiology; Associate Director, UCSF-Gladstone CFAR.
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  UCSF Graduate Student Mentoring Program: Guidelines for Faculty Mentors
  A synopsis of mentors' obligations, tips for writing letters of recommendations, etc. Includes pertinent links as well as a sample mentor-mentee agreement.
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  UCSF Postdoc Student Mentoring Program: Guidelines for Faculty Mentors
  Postdoc mentoring recommendations.

Mentoring Program Background Documents

• CFAR Mentoring Program: Manual for Mentors
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  CFAR Mentoring Task Force Plan

UCSF Resources

• Mentor Development Program (MDP)
  Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI)
• Junior Faculty AIDS Researchers (JFAR)
  UCSF AIDS Research Institute (ARI)
• UCSF Office of Postdoctoral Affairs

External Resources

• Advisor, Teacher, Role Model, Friend: On Being a Mentor to Students in Science and Engineering
  Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy (COSEPUP), National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine. 1997.
• American Heart Association Mentoring Handbook
  Provides career advice for both mentors and mentees in the clinical, basic, and population sciences. Second Edition. 2008.
• How To Get the Mentoring You Want
  The Rackham School of Graduate Studies, University of Michigan. 2008.

Publications

• B. Adamson, J. Fuchs, C. Sopher, D. Flood, P. Johnson, B. Haynes, J. Kublin, and the NIAID HIV Vaccine Trials Network. A New Model for Catalyzing Translational Science: The Early Stage Investigator Mentored Research Scholar Program in HIV Vaccines. Clin and Transl Sci. 2014 Dec 30.
• Johnson MO, Gandhi M. A mentor training program improves mentoring competency for researchers working with early-career investigators from underrepresented backgrounds.Adv Health Sci Educ Theory Pract. 2014 Oct 2.
• Sopher CJ1, Adamson BJ, Andrasik MP, Flood DM, Wakefield SF, Stoff DM, Cook RS, Kublin JG, Fuchs JD. Enhancing Diversity in the Public Health Research Workforce: The Research and Mentorship Program for Future HIV Vaccine Scientists. Am J Public Health. 2014 Aug 14:e1-e8. [Epub ahead of print]
• Gandhi M, Fernandez A, Stoff DM, Narahari S, Blank M, Fuchs J, Evans CH, Kahn JS, Johnson MO. Development and Implementation of a Workshop to Enhance the Effectiveness of Mentors Working with Diverse Mentees in HIV Research. AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses. 2014 May 12.
• Kahn JS, Greenblatt RM. Mentoring early-career scientists for HIV research careers. Am J Public Health. Feb. 26, 2009.
• Feldman MD, Huang L, Guglielmo BJ, Jordan R, Kahn J, Creasman JM, Wiener-Kronish JP, Lee KA, Tehrani A, Yaffe K, Brown JS. Training the next generation of research mentors: The University of California, San Francisco, Clinical and Translational Science Institute Mentor Development Program. Clin Transl Sci., June 2, 2009.
• Kahn J, Des Jarlais CD, Dobkin L, Barrs SF, Greenblatt RM. Mentoring the next generation of HIV prevention researchers: a model mentoring program at the University of California San Francisco and Gladstone Institute of Immunology and Virology Center for AIDS research. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2008 Mar 1;47 Suppl 1:S5-9.