Mentor Training Opportunities

​Mentoring is a critical aspect of academic training and research progress, yet, it is often learned and perfected only through trial and error. These evidence-based trainings provide an intellectual framework to accelerate the acquisition of mentoring insights and cultivate effective mentee-mentor relationships.

The Health Sciences Office of Faculty Affairs provides faculty mentor trainings based off the curricula instructed at the Center for the Improvement of Mentored Experiences in Research (CIMER). 

Junior Faculty Mentor Training (Jr. FMTP)

Facilitators will lead participants through proven curricular activities that strengthen key mentoring competencies, including maintaining effective communication, aligning expectations, and promoting professional development. Participants will learn new approaches from each other as they work through mentoring challenges, reflect upon their mentoring experiences, and refine their individual mentoring style.

The Junior Faculty Mentor Training (Jr. FMTP) is led by National Research Mentoring Network (NRMN) Master Facilitator, Dennis Durbin, MD, MSCE (The Ohio State University and Nationwide Children’s Hospital) and CIMER Mentor Facilitator, Judith Varner, PhD (UC San Diego).

Junior faculty (Assistant or Associate Professors) are eligible to register. This training is offered in a morning or afternoon session. Please register for only one session. See upcoming training information below:

Culturally Aware Mentoring (CAM) Training

The full-day Culturally Aware Mentoring (CAM) Training is conducted by facilitators from Center for the Improvement of Mentored Experiences in Research (CIMER). This training will help you to 1) recognize how cultural differences can impact, complicate, and benefit your research mentoring relationships; and 2) apply evidence-based strategies to reduce and counteract the impact of biases, stereotype threat, and privilege to foster trusting, culturally responsive mentoring relationships.

All UC San Diego faculty are eligible to register. Seating is limited. Please ensure you are able to attend the entire duration of the training. Breakfast and lunch will be provided.

See upcoming training information below: