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The C.T. Lamont Primary Health Care Research Centre promotes a culture of continuous learning and collegial relationships among all investigators and staff.  Our Mentorship Program helps to build capacity and enable participants to engage in successful research initiatives.
 
How can you be involved?

You can be a mentee; you can be a mentor; you can be both!

As a mentee:

• If you are just starting out or are building upon other skills, you may benefit from the experience of another individual.  Your needs may be different than someone else’s needs.  You may want help with career advancement, relationship development, practical project skills and productivity.  Depending on your needs, you may identify a mentor from within the department or someone external to the department.  You may need more than one mentor to help you or you may identify different mentors at different points in your career. 

As a mentor:

• If you have experience, knowledge or skills that can help others advance their careers within the C.T. Lamont Centre and you are willing to invest the time, you can share that experience by entering into a mentoring relationship.  You can help facilitate the development of problem-solving skills, decision-making skills, self confidence, job satisfaction and upward mobility of your mentee.  Your ability to foster professional and personal growth will be regarded as a critical component of your mentee’s success. 

How you can be both:

• Like many of us, you may feel you have experience that can help others and you may enjoy learning from someone with more experience than you!  This program is open to having you play multiple roles over time.

What are the expectations and supports?

• Mentors and mentees are expected to meet regularly over a specified period of time to establish goals and work toward those goals.  We hope you will provide helpful feedback to the Mentorship Program Committee so that we can continuously improve the program.
• A Mentor-Mentee Written Partnership Agreement template  is available to help guide the development of the mentoring relationship, goals and eventual completion of the relationship.
• Dr. Barbara Farrell is the Mentorship  Program Director.  She works with the Mentorship Program Committee to build and guide mentoring activities and respond to emerging needs. Chi-Anh Ta is the Mentorship Program Coordinator.

How to get involved:

If you are interested in participating in this exciting program, think about your mentoring needs and/or what support you could provide to someone else, then contact Koko Bate Aborsangaya at KBateAgborsangaya@bruyere.org or tel 613-562-6262 (1635). If you have a mentoring partner in mind, we can help set things up.  If not, we can help identify potential partners.

“Individuals who have had a mentoring relationship tend to
see the world more positively, have more self-confidence and self-esteem,
are more productive, take more risks, communicate better and are happier
with their lives and jobs.” Ricer RE, Fam Med, 1995.