Pulling it all together: Pharmacologists helping Pharmacologists

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Pulling it all togetherPharmacologists helping
Pharmacologists
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Stephanie W. Watts April 18, 2009 Graduate
Colloquium EB, New Orleans LA
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Mentoring Students is

• a privilege
• how we pass on science and the process of doing
  it
• a social contract

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What were you first?
Human??
Scientist??
(please tell me human, otherwise Ill be worried!)
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Communicate, Communicate

• Keep an open door
• This is a a two way door!

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Mentee
Your involvement should be ACTIVE, not passive
You will get from Graduate School what you put in
The sooner you become the driver of your career,
the better
Allow yourself to be vulnerable, and LEARN
Recognize your mentor is imperfect
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Mentors
Understand mentees are vulnerable
Be an active mentor, not a passive mentor
You will get from a mentee what you put in
The more you help a mentee become a driver of
their own career, the better
Recognize your mentee is imperfect
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Use your Powers of Observation

• Students are individual. Each will have
  different ways of being effectively taught
• -the quiet student
• -the extrovert

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Know that students are NOT all the same, but

• They all need you to some degree
• All students should get the same basics

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Be in touch
Let them know they matter
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MENTORS Remember

• Your words have weight
• You are a template for how your students will
  mentor. Think hard about what you want to see
  passed on.
• Admit your short comings, and ask for help from
  your students. PASS THIS ON!

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Wise words

• Accept criticism graciously
• Become focused and organized
• Cope with burgeoning scientific literature
• Develop critical thinking and logical sequence of
  ideas
• Experience satisfaction and joy from his or her
  endeavors
• Finish tasks undertaken
• Give his or her best at all times
• Hone communication skills in writing and speaking

http//www.the-aps.org/careers/car_mentor.htm Beve
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Especially for Pharmacologists

• Help your students understand how pharmacology
  differs from closely associated disciplines what
  do we add that is unique?

• Help them know the history of pharmacology.
• A Brief History of Great discoveries in
  Pharmacology In Celebration of the Centennial
  Anniversary of the Founding of the American
  Society of Pharmacology and Experimental
  Therapeutics by Ronald P. Rubin, Pharmacological
  Reviews 59 289-359 (2007)
• A Brief History of ASPET on Its Centennial
  Anniversary by John Parascandola, Molecular
  Interventions 7 288-302 (2007)

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Whats YOUR Abel number?
From the ASPET Website Well, if you were
John Jacob Abel, your Abel number would be 0.
If you published with J. J. Abel, your Abel
number would be 1. If you published with
someone who published with J. J. Abel, your Abel
number would be 2. And so on.
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