Working with a mentor
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Working with a mentor
Effective mentoring plays a critical role in making your postdoctoral training experience one that is meaningful and productive for you.
Mentoring
Mentoring is a central and essential part of the postdoctoral experience. Postdoctoral training not only provides scholars a chance to learn with established experts in their fields, but also affords them opportunities to shape the next generation of scholars by serving as advisers to graduate and undergraduate students.
Mentoring relationships
The Office of Postdoctoral Affairs recognizes the important impact effective mentoring relationships can have on the postdoctoral training experience and provides postdocs at Northwestern University with a host of resources—both in-person and online—to help them establish productive and rewarding relationships with mentors and mentees. More information on these resources can be found on the pages in this section.
Mentoring best practices and skill-building
Northwestern faculty offer advice on skill-building and the best practices of mentoring.
Mentoring workshops
OPA runs quarterly workshops for postdoctoral fellows in all disciplines who would like to learn best practices of working with mentors and mentees.
Mentoring for faculty
The Office of the Provost, The Graduate School, and the Center for Leadership offer the Northwestern
"Advancing Mentoring Excellence at Northwestern" certificate program for faculty. In addition, Northwestern University Clinical and Translational Sciences (NUCATS) Institute offers a "Mentor Training Certificate Program" for faculty across all ranks and tracks who hold appointments in the Feinberg School of Medicine. Faculty in other colleges may participate if they are a member of NUCATS.