Finding Your Five Mentors and a Sponsor

This program is not currently scheduled.

However, any resources like slides and recordings from this event would be listed under Materials at the bottom of this page. Announcements about when this program is offered next will be emailed from "UCSF Office of Career and Professional Development."

Overview

Everyone will tell you that mentorship is important, but how does a student or postdoc find mentors? In this workshop, we'll discuss the types of mentors there are and you'll identify which ones you need to develop your mentoring team. We'll then discuss how students and postdocs establish, maintain, and even end mentoring relationships. Finally, you'll brainstorm a plan to build the community you need for success.

The learning outcomes for this session are to:

  1. Define what mentorship is and describe the benefits of mentorship
  2. Categorize five different types of mentors every student and postdoc needs
  3. Analyze what types of mentorship you have in your own life
  4. Identify which mentors you need to seek now and why
  5. Develop different strategies to find your mentors

A note about our virtual events: We would like to welcome you, as and where you are, to our virtual events. If there are times you just don’t want to be on camera, feel free to attend this event with your camera and mic off. If you prefer to switch on your camera and participate that’s great too. And if this event just won’t work for you please remember you can always make an appointment with us at any time. 

UCSF welcomes all participants to our events. If you need a reasonable accommodation to participate in this event because of a disability, please contact Trish McGrath at [email protected] as soon as possible.