Institute for Computational Medicine, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
FEBS J. 2022 Mar;289(6):1374-1384. doi: 10.1111/febs.15823. Epub 2021 Apr 5.
Mentorship is experience and/or knowledge-based guidance. Mentors support, sponsor and advocate for mentees. Having one or more mentors when you seek advice can significantly influence and improve your research endeavours, well-being and career development. Positive mentee-mentor relationships are vital for maintaining work-life balance and success in careers. Early-career researchers (ECRs), in particular, can benefit from mentorship to navigate challenges in academic and nonacademic life and careers. Yet, strategies for selecting mentors and maintaining interactions with them are often underdiscussed within research environments. In this Words of Advice, we provide recommendations for ECRs to seek and manage mentorship interactions. Our article draws from our experiences as ECRs and published work, to provide suggestions for mentees to proactively promote beneficial mentorship interactions. The recommended practices highlight the importance of identifying mentorship needs, planning and selecting multiple and diverse mentors, setting goals, and maintaining constructive, and mutually beneficial working relationships with mentors.
指导是一种基于经验和/或知识的指导。导师为学员提供支持、赞助和支持。在寻求建议时，拥有一位或多位导师可以极大地影响和改善你的研究工作、幸福感和职业发展。积极的学员-导师关系对于维持工作与生活的平衡和职业成功至关重要。特别是初出茅庐的研究人员（ECRs）可以从导师那里受益，以应对学术和非学术生活和职业中的挑战。然而，在研究环境中，选择导师和与他们保持互动的策略往往讨论不足。在这个建议中，我们为 ECR 提供了寻求和管理指导互动的建议。我们的文章借鉴了我们作为 ECR 的经验和已发表的工作，为学员提供了积极促进有益的指导互动的建议。建议的实践强调了确定指导需求、规划和选择多个和多样化的导师、设定目标以及与导师保持建设性和互利的工作关系的重要性。
