All postdocs are mentees in some capacity and many act as mentors themselves. As such, postdoc training is a critical moment to develop and implement robust mentoring practices needed for a successful career in academia and beyond. In fact, academic institutions have been increasingly discussing the need for evidence of mentoring in promotion & tenure processes implying that mentoring will become one of the central tenets of academic success.
The Office of Postdoctoral Affairs offers Postdoc Mentoring Training each year during the Spring Semester. Based on the Mentoring Up for Postdoctoral Trainees curriculum developed by the Center for Improvement of Mentored Experiences in Research, this training program is designed to guide postdocs through some of the challenges and concerns that mentees and mentors encounter in mentoring relationships.