Welcome to the Mentoring Resources Website
Mentoring is an essential component to achieving success in your academic career. This website (sponsored by the Institute for Clinical Research Education at the University of Pittsburgh) serves as a knowledge base and provides resources for mentees and mentors at every stage, whether you are just getting started, or are looking for ways to get more our of the mentoring relationship. We explore topics such as deciding on the right mentoring model, communicating effectively, and finding strategies for problem solving.
Feel free to read our articles (choose a topic from our left-hand menu) or join in our discussions. We have all the tools needed to enhance your mentoring experience whether you are a mentor or mentee.
Mentoring Spotlight
The ICRE has many accomplished faculty who serve as successful mentors for others. Dr. Michael Fine is one of those individuals. He has extensive research mentoring experience and is widely recognized as an accomplished mentor within the Department of Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh.
At the departmental level, Dr. Fine is one of a handful of appointed senior investigators responsible for meeting with all K-awardees to ensure that their research careers are advancing as planned and their mentor-mentee relationships are functioning effectively.
As a prior recipient of a K24 mid-career development award from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases designed to support mentoring activities, Dr Fine has mentored over 40 MD or PhD researchers at virtually all levels of training, ranging from medical and graduate students to junior faculty. Collectively, these mentees have published 56 peer review manuscripts, and many have successfully competed for VA and NIH career development awards and investigator initiated research grants of their own.
According to Dr. Fine, "Mentoring is similar to parenting in that nothing gives you more happiness than seeing how a mentee's hard work and dedication results in academic success and productivity - every mentor like every parent wants their charge to achieve the highest degree of both professional and personal success."
