Resources for Mentoring, Education, and Development

Books below are available to read (for free!) from the Office of Faculty and Academic Affairs. Email GUMCMentoring@georgetown.edu if you are interested in borrowing any of the books.

• A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science by Barbara Oakley
• Mindshift: Break Through Obstacles to Learning and Discover Your Hidden Potential by Barbara Oakley
• Teaching for Learning: 101 Intentionally Designed Educational Activities to Put Students on the Path to Success by Claire Howell Major, Michael S. Harris, and Todd Zakrajsek
• Dynamic Lecturing: Research-based Strategies to Enhance Lecture Effectiveness by Christine Harrington and Todd Zakrajsek
• Designing your Life: How to Build a Well-lived, Joyful Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans
• Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler
• On Being a Mentor by W. Brad Johnson 
• Transformative Conversations: A guide to mentoring communities among colleagues in higher education by Peter Felten
• Georgetown Vet Ally handbook – Learn more from Georgetown Vet Ally website

• ATD Mentoring Ebook
• AAMC Compact Between Postdoctoral Appointees and Their Mentors
• AAMC Compact Between Biomedical Graduate Students and Their Mentors
• Nature Mentoring Collection
• Forming a Mentoring Committee
• National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity includes: 
  • Faculty Success Program
  • Free membership when you register with Georgetown University
  • 10 Core Curriculum videos on important faculty development skills: time management, mentoring, planning for a semester, writing, stress management, etc. 
• Implementing Optimal Team-Based Care To Reduce Clinician Burnout
• CIMER National Mentoring Month Resources

• There are additional internal programs mentioned on the previous page
• GUMC Mentoring Program for New and Early Career Faculty
• Georgetown-Howard Universities Center for Clinical and Translational Science (GHUCCTS) Mentoring Program
• Medical Student Independent Scholarly Project (ISP)
• GUMC Teaching Academy
• LEAD Program (CENTILE)

• University of Minnesota Clinical and Translational Science Institute Mentoring Resources
  • Optimizing the Practice of Mentoring: An Online Curriculum for the Professional Development of Research Mentors – The Clinical and Translational Science Institute has developed a free, self-paced, online, professional development course designed to prepare faculty from a range of disciplines to be effective research mentors for junior faculty, post-doctoral fellows, and graduate students.
• UW Institute for Clinical and Translational Research Mentoring Resources and Programs

• MyMentor: Online social networking platform for mentors and mentees engaged in biomedical science, broadly defined provided by the National Research Mentoring Network (NRMN)
• MyNRMN: Social networking platform from NRMN for students and researchers across the biomedical, behavioral, social, and clinical sciences to connect with one another for anything from general questions about research and professional development as a scientist to scheduling more formal mentorship appointments one-on-one or as a group

• CIMER Complete Training Curricula with case studies, activities and facilitator notes – including one specifically for mentors of undergraduates in astrophysics and one for mentors of graduate students
• CIMER Complete Trainig Curricula with case studies, activities and facilitator guides for undergraduates in STEM
• CIMER Assessment Platform: Allows groups to set up common metrics surveys for their program and assess mentors, mentee, training and mentoring relationships
• National Academies Study of Mentoring
• University of Arizona – Avoiding Gender Bias in Reference Writing
• National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity

• Compilation of Resources on Racial Justice: We encourage members of the Georgetown University Medical Center to educate themselves and others using these resources and the resources listed on other Georgetown main sites to learn and discuss ways that we can work together in solidarity and act against the inequalities that exist in this world.