Mentor/Trainee Relationships
Mentoring is essential to scientific education, development, and professionalization.
A mentor could be a graduate or post-graduate advisor, lab director, or colleague.
Mentoring can happen at different stages of your career, e.g. as a graduate student, post-doctoral student, and as a beginning investigator.
Mentors teach mentees about scientific methods, concepts, and techniques, but also about the “hidden” curriculum, e.g. ethics, regulations, social conventions, careers, history, traditions.
Mentoring usually involves teaching by example and role-modelling.
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