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The Importance of Mentorship in Career Development
Receiving guidance and help from mentors is an essential component of career development and planning, especially in academic medicine and biomedical research, where the availability of resources and job opportunities are becoming more challenging. Mentors share their wisdom, experience, content expertise, and networks with mentees to provide ideas and feedback, identify and open opportunities, deal with problems and avoid mistakes, and especially to assist in evaluating the many personal and professional factors involved in decision making about career paths and job options. Identifying, engaging, and utilizing mentors appropriately is a key part of career development, and effective mentorship can come from several sources, including personal interactions, passive role models, and artificial intelligence. Providing mentorship is an important responsibility that includes various risks and benefits that should be clearly understood before the role of mentor is undertaken. Moreover, mentors should carefully assess whom to accept as a mentee by considering the time, skills, and interest needed to meet their own expectations along with those of their prospective mentees. With increasing awareness of the value of mentorship, more academic health centers, medical schools, and departments provide programs to help their students, trainees, faculty, and staff better access, understand, and take advantage of mentorship opportunities, as well as offer programs to enhance the skills and abilities of those interested in being effective mentors.
期刊介绍:
The American Journal of Pathology, official journal of the American Society for Investigative Pathology, published by Elsevier, Inc., seeks high-quality original research reports, reviews, and commentaries related to the molecular and cellular basis of disease. The editors will consider basic, translational, and clinical investigations that directly address mechanisms of pathogenesis or provide a foundation for future mechanistic inquiries. Examples of such foundational investigations include data mining, identification of biomarkers, molecular pathology, and discovery research. Foundational studies that incorporate deep learning and artificial intelligence are also welcome. High priority is given to studies of human disease and relevant experimental models using molecular, cellular, and organismal approaches.