Visiting CIMER: Center for the Improvement of Mentored Experiences in Research

By Tracey Baas, PhD, URBEST Executive Director

Recently, I had the good fortune to work with Drs. Lynne Maquat and Jeff Hayes, who are the directors of the T32 NIH Training Grant in Cellular, Biochemical & Molecular Sciences. We were able to procure funding for a Supplement for Future Faculty Skills Training: Mentoring and Manuscript Writing. One of the things that the supplement allowed was to send two faculty members to University of Wisconsin-Madison to be trained at a Facilitator Workshop:  Learn to Implement Mentor Training through Center for the Improvement of Mentored Experiences in Research (CIMER). The intent is that what was learned at the training will be shared in some format here at the University of Rochester. In the meantime, I’d like to offer some basics that you could peruse to provide some different viewpoints on the ideas of mentoring and being a mentee:

• One portion of CIMER’s Entering Research about aligning expectations 
• A downloadable version of Mentor Training for Biomedical Researchers, which is part of Entering Mentoring
• University of Rochester’s suggestions for Roles and Responsibilities of Supervisors/Advisors and Graduate Students
• A downloadable version of Making the Right Moves: A Practical Guide to Scientific Management for Postdocs and New Faculty from Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Burroughs Wellcome Fund

If you have any questions, concerns, ideas to share, or want to keep up to date with upcoming Mentoring Training, please contact me at tracey_baas@urmc.rochester.edu.

Tracey Baas | 11/8/2019