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). 

Refresher | Understanding Generational Differences

Dr. Jean M. Twenge, professor of psychology at San Diego State University and renowned author of many best-selling books on generational differences, technology use, and mental health, will join us for this special session on understanding generational differences in academic medicine. Today’s students and trainees are nearly all Gen Z (born after 1995), a generation strikingly different from the Millennials just before them. Key generational differences relevant for medical and research training include trends in independence, social interaction, self-confidence, risk-taking, and attitudes toward work. Throughout this event, advice will be provided on guiding Gen Z to their full potential as learners, scientists, and health professionals.

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This 2-hour, in-person event includes a panel of students and trainees in academic medicine following Dr. Twenge's presentation.

This event satisfies the 3-year refresher training requirement for NIH T32, R25, K programs and F fellowships. It also builds on the foundational training in effective mentorship and is part of our successful Health Sciences Faculty Mentor Training Program that utilizes evidence-based curriculum informed by the NASEM consensus study report, “The Science of Effective Mentorship in STEMM.” 

This event is supported by the Health Sciences Office of Faculty Affairs, UC San Diego Altman Clinical and Translational Research Institute (ACTRI), UC San Diego FIRST Program, UC San Diego Chancellor, and Vice Chancellor for Health Sciences.

Jean M. Twenge, professor of psychology at San Diego State University, is the author of more than 190 scientific publications and seven books, including 10 Rules for Raising Kids in a High-Tech World and Generations: The Real Differences between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers and Silents—and What They Mean for America’s Future. Dr. Twenge frequently gives talks and seminars on generational differences and raising children in the digital age based on a dataset of 43 million people. Her audiences have included parents, military personnel, college faculty and staff, high school teachers, camp directors, and corporate executives. Her research has been covered in Time, Newsweek, The New York Times, USA Today, U.S. News and World Report, and The Washington Post, and she has been featured on Today, Good Morning America, CBS This Morning, Fox and Friends, NBC Nightly News, Real Time with Bill Maher, and National Public Radio. She holds a BA and MA from the University of Chicago and a PhD from the University of Michigan. She publishes her latest analyses and updates on the Generation Tech Substack.