From Local to National: Redesigning Professional Mentoring to Promote Equity, Development, and Community (Table 8)

• In Event: Fairmont Roundtable Session Six

Session Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

The session reconceptualizes mentoring to improve equitable processes and outcomes, demonstrates strategic practices for redesigning initiatives, and applies findings to a national context. In professional schools, in particular, there are often few educational researchers. This produces a need for connection, opportunities, collaboration, and development. Session presentations highlight efforts and gaps, assessing and establishing a sustained mentoring culture, interprofessional mentoring, mentoring across difference, and applying strategies nationally within professional organizations. Discussions focus on redesigning and implementing professional mentoring at a national level to increase belonginess and inclusion, assist in career and personal development, build professional networks and communities.

Sub Unit

• Division I - Education in the Professions

Chair

• Kadian McIntosh, University of Arizona

Papers

• Building a Mentoring Culture in a Professional Organization to Enhance Belonging and Career Development - Patricia S. O'Sullivan, University of California - San Francisco

• Mentoring Across Professions: Lessons Learned From a National Interprofessional Mentoring Program - Kelly S. Lockeman, Virginia Commonwealth University

• Mentoring Across Difference: Can We Do It Within an Organization? - Elizabeth Gatewood, University of California - San Francisco

• Strategies for Organizing a National Mentoring Group - Julie M. Galliart, University of Kansas School of Medicine - Wichita