Faculty Mentoring Program

UTRGV School of Medicine faculty member giving presentation during faculty mentoring session

To promote UTRGV School of Medicine faculty success and advancement, this program will help participating faculty members to:

Identify and develop an area of academic expertise.
  • Form professional networks inside UTRGV-SOM and the larger community of scholars
  • Become familiar with UTRGV-SOM infrastructure and services supporting scholarship
  • Harness the power of interdependent relationships with mentors, colleagues, and peers
  • Mitigate factors that disproportionately hamper the advancement of women and underrepresented minority faculty members
  • Receive guidance about the essential elements and specific factors required for advancement in the division, department, medical school, and university
To promote UTRGV School of Medicine faculty success and advancement, this program will help the organization to:
  • Recruit and retain a diverse and inclusive group of talented faculty members
  • Develop a “culture of mentorship” that promotes faculty scholarship and advancement, and that builds social equity for faculty
  • Develop and retain mentors that are skilled at helping women advocate for equity in salary and resources
  • Promote leadership among traditionally under-represented groups – this includes providing unconscious bias training for search committees
  • Provide mentorship that addresses interpersonal communication skills and expectations for professionalism including education about appropriate workplace behavior, reporting unprofessional behavior, and advocating for the elimination of sexual and gender harassment
  • Build a cadre of skilled mentors
  • Create a mentoring program that is viewed as a national model for medical schools that do not own a clinical enterprise and must partner with hospitals and health systems
To promote the success and advancement of UTRGV School of Medicine Kleberg Scholars, this program will help participating Kleberg Scholars to:
  • Identify and develop an area of academic expertise
  • Identify health disparities that can be targeted to improve healthcare access and delivery across the Rio Grande Valley
  • Serve as health care advocates for Rio Grande Valley

 

Faculty Resources

 

Office of Faculty Affairs (School of Medicine)

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