Mentoring | Emory School of Medicine

A robust mentorship program is a cornerstone for faculty success, offering guidance, support, and opportunities for growth. It helps faculty navigate the academic landscape and also fosters a sense of community and collaboration within the department.

Peer Mentoring

Looking for guidance, support, and a community that understands your journey? Our Peer Mentoring Groups are here to help! Whether you're navigating teaching challenges, career decisions, or personal growth, these site-specific groups offer:
Collaborative Learning: Share insights and strategies in a supportive environment.

Networking Opportunities: Build lasting relationships with peers and professionals.

Skill Development: Enhance your skills through meetings, discussions, and resources.

Contact us for more information on group locations and how to sign up.

One-on-One Mentoring

In this traditional mentoring model, an established mentor serves to guide an early stage mentee along their career path. These can be formal or informal relationships, pre-assigned pairings by a department or self-selected by the mentee. Need assistance in finding a mentor?

Please contact us.

DOM Pilot Mentoring Matching Program

(This program is geared towards New Early Career Faculty Members.)

This pilot program is designed to foster professional growth and development by pairing new early-career faculty members with experienced mentors. Our program aims to provide guidance on academic mission areas as well as support your personal development. Through personalized mentor-mentee relationships, participants will build meaningful connections, and work towards achieving their professional goals.

Eligibility: For the 25-26 academic year, the program is open to all new early-career faculty members within the Department of Medicine and whose start date falls within October 2024 through September 2025.

Program Schedule: The Pilot Mentoring Matching Program is an annual program that runs from October through September each year. This allows for a full year of mentorship, providing ample time for meaningful interactions and development. For the 25-26 academic year, the program will open up during the summer of 2025.

How to Apply: All eligible new early-career faculty will be contacted by the Office of Faculty Development to complete an online needs assessment. The needs assessment deadline is September 30th each year.

How it works: Read here

To learn more, email the DOM Office of Faculty Development at somfdev@emory.edu.

Mentoring Tools and Resources

Mentoring Agreement - Initial ground rules/foundation for mentor/mentee partnerships
Individual Development Plan - The IDP serves as a roadmap to help you achieve your short- and long-term professional and personal goals.
Mentoring Worksheet - For use by the mentee to prepare for review of goals and career conference report. Complete at Career Conference Report meeting and give to Division Director
PATHS - Helps guide you through additional learning opportunities to aid in your career progression. These guidelines detail suggested targeted accomplishments towards promotion with a specific time frame. Each PATH is divided by career year(s) into best practices and academic mission areas. Useful for mentees and mentors.
Roadmap to Mentoring - Sample timeline for first year faculty position
Early Career Mentoring Process
Early Career Mentoring Program Overview

Mentoring Moment Videos

This video series highlights previous departmental mentoring award winners as well as mentoring best practices.

DOM Mentoring Moment - 2024 Sitaraman Silver Pear Mentoring Award for Research

Pamela Vohra-Khullar, MD, (General Internal Medicine,) talks with our 2024 Sitaraman Silver Pear Mentoring Award for Research awardees and the mentees who nominated them. In this discussion, mentees reflect on the way mentors have positively impacted their careers. The award winners reflect on the benefits of being a mentor, and the joy it brings to their career.

Nominator: Jinhee Jeong, PhD (Renal Medicine) and Winner: Jeanie Park, MD, MS (Renal Medicine)
Nominator: Amalia Aldredge, MD, MSc (Infectious Diseases) and Winner: Anandi Sheth, MD, MSc (Infectious Diseases)

DOM Mentoring Moment - Peer Mentoring (October 2024)

Watch this short video to learn about peer mentoring, and why you might want to be a peer mentor or receive peer mentoring. You will also hear what each of the peer mentoring groups are planning for the year.

Celebration of 2023 Shanthi Sitaraman Silver Pear Mentoring Award

Noble Maleque, MD, (Hospital Medicine) talks with Jennifer Spicer, MD, (Infectious Diseases), who nominated the winner of the 2023 Shanthi Sitaraman Silver Pear Mentoring Award, Wendy Armstrong, MD, (Infectious Diseases). Drs. Spicer and Armstrong talk about the characteristics of a good mentor and the joys of mentorship.

Celebration of the 2023 Silver Pear Mentoring Award for Research

This video celebrates Thomas Ziegler, MD (Endocrinology Metabolism and Lipids), the 2023 recipient of the Sitaraman Silver Pear Mentoring Award for Research. Pamela Vohra-Khullar, MD, FACP, (General Internal Medicine) talks with Dr. Ziegler and his mentee, Jessica Alvarez, PhD, RD, (Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Lipids), about the benefits of mentorship and advice for mentees and mentors.

Celebration of the 2022 Sitaraman Research Mentoring Award

This video celebrates Michael Woodworth, MD (Infectious Diseases), the winner of the 2022 Sitaraman Research Mentoring Award. Ugochi Ohuabunwa, MD (Geriatrics and Gerontology) talks with Dr. Woodworth and his mentee, Ahmed Babiker, MD (Infectious Diseases), about the benefits of mentorship and advice for mentees and mentors.

Addressing Equity and Inclusion as a Mentor

J. Sonya Haw, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Lipids, Associate Program Director of the Endocrinology Fellowship, and the Medical Director of the Gender Center at Grady Memorial Hospital and Modele Ogunniyi, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Cardiology and the Associate Medical Director of the Grady Heart Failure Program discuss how to address Equity and Inclusion as a Mentor.

Shanthi V. Sitaraman Silver Pear Mentoring Award

Each year, faculty are eligible to receive the Shanthi V. Sitaraman Silver Pear Mentoring Award, which recognizes faculty who have demonstrated outstanding mentorship to early career faculty.

Faculty Awards Program

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Mentoring in the Department of Medicine