O'Brien Institute Mentorship Program Resources
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Mentorship and Leadership
Mentorship Program
Leadership activities
Fostering a Community of Practice during the COVID-19 pandemic
Mentorship program
The Program
- functions as a ‘matchmaker’ service between volunteer mentors and mentees within the Institute
- is designed to be extremely flexible, to best suit the needs of participants
- supports time-limited, activity-defined relationships (which, according to mentorship literature may be the easiest to arrange, maintain, and assess) as well as more informal, ongoing relationships
- focuses on research-related activities, and was designed to meet University of Calgary, Cumming School of Medicine, and Department of Community Health Sciences requirements, but may be adapted (upon request) to support other activities and members with other affiliations
- is broader in scope and complementary to the Institute’s existing Internal Peer Review program, which will continue to run in parallel
The Process:
- Identify your development needs and your areas of experience/expertise, and register your interest to participate in the Program as a mentor, a mentee, or both, using the Intake Form below.
- Submit the completed Intake Form to iph@ucalgary.ca and wait for the Institute team to get back to you with suggested matches. This could take up to several weeks, in the case of mentees seeking mentors, or an undetermined amount of time, for mentors offering to be matched with mentees.
- The Institute will confirm a successful match with a ‘launch’ email to both mentor and mentee.
- Matched partners are encouraged to review the variety of resources below, and use as desired to support the relationship.
- The Institute will “check in” at some point(s) to gauge satisfaction, and Program participants are encouraged to adapt (expectations, timelines, etc) or terminate the partnership at any time, by friendly agreement, with or without the confidential involvement of the Institute.
- The program will be ongoing - registrations, activity completions, and re-registrations possible at any time.
- The Institute may also contact participants to request feedback to inform Program improvements.
Mentorship Program Guiding Principles and Program Description
Mentorship Program Intake Form
Mentorship Matching Flowchart
Mentor Workshop Module 1
Mentor Workshop Module 2
Mentor Workshop Module 3
Mentee Workbook Module 1
Student Mentorship Resources
Students looking for mentorship programs are encouraged to use the following resources:
University of Calgary Emerging Leaders Program
Graduate Students Association
My GradSkills
Impact of Membership
Please watch the videos below for firsthand accounts of how mentorship has impacted our members.
Community of Practice
Networking sessions
March 31, 2020
Session # 1
See below for the
recording, slides and meeting notes
resulting from this session
April 7, 2020
Session # 2
See below for the
recording (audio only) and slides
resulting from this session