Role and Qualifications of Mentors, Co-mentors

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Role and Qualifications of Mentors, Co-mentors
Research Supervisors

• Pierre Julien PhDCHUL Research CenterSte-Foy, Qc

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Mentorship Education

1. Transdisciplinarity collaboration on study
   design development and achievement.WHEREAS
2. Mentorship personal and professional relationship

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MENTORSHIPRemarks

1. Mentorship involved all professional fields
   commercial - industrial - university disciplines
2. Mentorship and the web
3. Moving relationship process for the Mentor the
   Mentee
4. Involved continuous remodeling of objectives
   continuous reviewing of his or her opinions or
   points of view with others
5. AIM is to increase professional relationship - to
   train outstanding professionals with community
   oriented professionals (concerned by others and
   with community welfare)

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Usefulness of Mentoring

• Kenneth Wilson, Nobel-laureat physicist, Ohio
  State University
• There is two ways to get on with successful
  training,
• You could take a practice run with somebody who
  has lots of experience and the ability to share
  it.
• The other way is to be taken to the base of
  Everest, dropped off with all the required
  technical equipment, and told to get to the top
  or quit. If you dont make it, your enthusiasm
  disappears, and you seek way to avoid similar
  challenges in the future.
• (Redesigning Education)

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Concept of Mentoring

• Mentoring is a powerful and popular way to learn
  a variety of personal and professional skills.
• The origin of the term is attributed to the Greek
  mythology.
• In Homers Odyssey, Mentor was the teacher of
  Telemachus, the son of Odysseus.
• But Mentor was more than a teacher.
• Mentor was half-God and half-man and half-female,
  believable and yet unreachable. Mentor was the
  union of both goal and path, wisdom
  personified.
• (Daloz, LA, Mentorship, Galbraith (Ed), Krieger,
  1988)

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Concept of Mentoring

• 3500 years mentoring relationships are still
  valued.
• Mentoring is not a a one-way street where
  mentoring would be simply means of aspiring young
  professionals, physicians or researchers to gain
  a career foothold or a boost the career ladder,
• But mentoring is reciprocal relationships between
  Mentor and Mentee.

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Nature of Mentoring Relationship

• Establishing a valued human relationship in a
  number of respects. Both parties must a true
  desire to understand the values and expectations
  of the other person, and to respect and become
  sensitive to one another RESPECT AND
  UNDERSTANDING, not a competition
• Different from personal relationship
  PROFESSIONAL RELATIONSHIP
• Mentors offer SUPPORT and CHALLENGE to mentee,
  upholding the standards of the profession, while
  mentee strives to fulfill the professions
  expectation

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Nature of Mentoring Relationship

• In healthy mentoring relationships are
  evolutionary rather than static in nature
• Knowledge acquisition - increase competence -
  etc.No man should step into the same stream
  twice
• Stage of mentoring relationship1- Mentor and
  Mentee acquaintance common interests,
  professional goals, etc... 2- Set up of common
  goals and procedures. If incomplete a co-mentor
  could be required or a a research collaborator
  for technical or professional skills3-
  Progressively, objectives are met and new
  challenges are presented .... (months and years)
  4- Redefinition of relationship colleagues,
  peers, partners, ...

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Qualification of a Mentor

• Advisor
• Professor, guide, model for the profession
• Entrusted with the care and education of another
  
• Expert status
• Willing to give away what he knows in a
  non-competitive way
• Represent knowledge and accomplishment in his
  profession.
• The most effective mentor- take a personal
  interest in the career development,- want to
  share knowledge,- offer support, patience,
  challenge, enthusiasm, time, - expose new ideas,
  and redefine his views,- put himself as equal to
  those they mentor.

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CHALLENGE
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TRANSDISCIPLINARY MENTORSHIP

• Canadian Institute of Health Research Dual
  mentorship for each traineeDual mentorship
  arrangements helped successful applications in
  underlining trans-disciplinarity and
  collaboration.
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• Queens UniversityDual and triple mentorship
  for new young Faculty members Inter-departmental
  mentorship.

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TRANSDISCIPLINARY MENTORSHIP

• Good mentoring is a distinctive and powerful
  process
• Questions to discuss
• Definition of the role of Mentorship, Research
  Supervision or Collaboration as related to
  STIRRHS program
• How to build engaging mentoring relationship
  within STIRRHS?
• Does Mentorship suit all professors?
  (understanding the role of mentor is essential
  for a good instructor)
• How to improve STIRRHS training program?