Interdisciplinary Mentoring in Science
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Key Features
- Highlights mistaken beliefs about mentoring within a scientific environment
- Written in a conversational tone and supported by evidence-based research
- Focuses on interdisciplinary mentoring in science and the modern dynamic of science and new scientific approaches to complex approaches
- Includes note sections where readers can write down key topics or ideas from each chapter
Readership
The primary audience consists of investigators and academicians who mentor predoctoral trainees in all scientific disciplines. This book will also be useful for early career scientists and students who are looking for mentors, as well as senior researchers and current mentors who want to further develop their mentoring skills.
Table of Contents
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Biography
Foreword
Chapter 1. Mentoring Definition–The Mentor Within
Definition of Mentoring
The Mentor Within
Exercise
What the Experts Have To Say
Chapter Notes and Observations
Chapter 2. What Mentoring Is Not
A Vertical Relationship
A Supervision Relationship
An Uneven Relationship
An Imposed Relationship
A Relationship Based on “Personal Agendas”
A Relationship with Time Constraints
What the Experts Have To Say
Chapter Notes and Observations
Chapter 3. Mentoring Outreach–The Multiplicative Effect
The Power of Gratitude–Exercise
Outreach
A Word of Caution
Obstacles
What the Experts Have To Say
Chapter Notes and Observations
Chapter 4. Mentoring Minorities and Women
Why Diversity?
Example of Imposed Diversity in the Workforce
Cultural Mix
Leadership and Embracing of Diversity
Gender
Mentoring Women
Mentoring Minorities
What the Experts Have To Say
Chapter Notes and Observations
Chapter 5. Interdisciplinary Mentoring
Overview
Team Science Applied to the Biomedical Sciences
The Interdisciplinary Mentoring (I-Mentoring) Pilot Initiative
Development
Outcome
Hypothetical Example
I-Mentor Training
One More Role for the I-Mentor
Obstacles
Feedback About Feedback
Data Analysis and Interpretation
Aim for This
What the Experts Have To Say
Chapter Notes and Observations
Chapter 6. Building a Mentoring Program
How to Organize a Mentoring Group
Remember That You are Dealing with Scientists
Mentoring Group–Modus Operandi
Learn When To Close
What the Experts Have To Say
Chapter Notes and Observations
Chapter 7. The I-Mentoring Program: How to Establish One
Brainstorming
A Word of Caution
Objective
What is a Mentoring Group?
Do You Have Buy-in?
Examples of Mentoring Groups
The I-Mentoring Program
Chapter Notes and Observations
Chapter 8. In Closing: Mentoring and Synchronicity
Morphic Fields and Morphic Resonance
The Practice of Mentoring under the Scope of Morphic Resonance
The Role of the I-Mentor under the Influence of Morphic Resonance
Appendix. The Kaleidoscope Effect
Bibliography
Index
Product details
- No. of pages: 200
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2013
- Published: October 3, 2013
- Imprint: Academic Press
- eBook ISBN: 9780123914149
- Paperback ISBN: 9780124159624
About the Author
Ofelia Olivero
Dr. Olivero has been particularly awarded for Leading Diversity by the NCI Director and is also the Chair of the Mentoring Programs at scientific societies. Her dedication to empower and inspire young females to choose scientific careers was recognized by the US State Department in her selection to be part of a delegation of female scientists to visit Brazil and Colombia to favor the participation of women in science. She is the author and co-author of more than 70 scientific articles on carcinogenesis induced by antiretrovirals, commonly used for AIDS therapy and other toxicities derived from environmental mutagens.
Dr. Olivero is a role model as a scientist and a mentor, and a very inspirational figure for young mentees.
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