Invitation to Join the Clinical Faculty Mentoring Program 2024-25
Are you clinical faculty or do you have an interest in teaching/supervising students? Do you have an interest in mentorship and in doing more within the UBC Faculty of Medicine (FoM)? Are you interested in getting support from an experienced clinical faculty colleague or mentoring a more junior colleague?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, you might be interested in participating in the Clinical Faculty Mentoring Program. The purpose of this formal mentoring program is to support the career goals of clinical faculty in the areas of administration, clinical, and teaching to enhance overall engagement within the UBC Faculty of Medicine (FoM). UBC Faculty Affairs and UBC Division of Continuing Professional Development (UBC CPD) are leading this program on behalf of the UBC Faculty of Medicine (FoM).
Though the program is formal in design, each mentoring pair will be able to negotiate virtually all aspects of the relationship including the frequency, length, and format of meetings and scope of the relationship. Mentees will create learning goals that will be used to guide mentoring meetings and the relationship. We recommend that over a seven-month period, mentors and mentees meet monthly (either in person, by telephone, or online, depending on mentor’s location). Once you apply, mentee applicants will be able to review profiles of all mentor applicants and rank their top three preferred mentors. Program staff will then use this information to match mentors and mentees.
There is no cost to participate in this program. The time commitment is approximately 9 hours over the seven-month program. If you already have someone in mind as a mentor, please encourage them to take part in this program with you.
Please visit our website to be directed to the online application form and more information about the program: https://ubccpd.ca/clinical-faculty-mentoring, Applications close July 15, 2024. If you have any questions or would like to talk further about the program, please don’t hesitate to contact UBC CPD Education Manager, Allison Macbeth at cf.mentoring@ubc.ca.
This is an annual program.