The following resources will help you learn about the science of effective mentorship and the dialogue around the importance of mentorship education.

Suggested Readings

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; Policy and Global Affairs; Board on Higher Education and Workforce; Committee on Effective Mentoring in STEMM; Dahlberg ML, Byars-Winston A, editors. The Science of Effective Mentorship in STEMM. Washington (DC): National Academies Press (US); 2019 Oct 30.

This report and its complementary interactive guide present insights into mentoring programs at the undergraduate and graduate levels, as well as practices that can be adapted by institutions, departments, and individual faculty members.

• Pfund, C., House, S. C., Asquith, P., Fleming, M. F., Buhr, K. A., Burnham, E. L., Eichenberger Gilmore, J. M., Huskins, W. C., McGee, R., Schurr, K., Shapiro, E. D., Spencer, K. C., & Sorkness, C. A. (2014). Training mentors of clinical and translational research scholars: A randomized controlled trial. Academic Medicine: Journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges, 89(5), 774-82.
  This paper describes a randomized controlled trial testing the effectiveness of the Mentor Training for Clinical and Translational Researchers curriculum and presents key outcomes, including increased skill gains and changes in mentoring behaviors.
  
  
• Pfund, C., Spencer, K. C., Asquith, P., House, S. C., Miller, S., & Sorkness, C. A. (2015). Building national capacity for research mentor training: An evidence-based approach to training the trainers. CBE Life Sciences Education, 14(2), ar24.
  This paper describes the development, implementation, evaluation, and impact of a train-the-trainer workshop designed to promote widespread dissemination of Entering Mentoring, an evidence-based research mentor training curriculum.
  
  
• Byars-Winston, A., House, S. C., Jones, R., Hurtado, S., Lee, Y. G., Eiring, E., & McGee, R. (2026). Culturally aware mentoring interventions create enduring changes among graduate biomedical faculty. Scientific Reports. 
  This paper describes a three-arm randomized comparative trial conducted to test the effectiveness of different ‘doses’ of a Culturally Aware Mentoring (CAM) intervention. Key outcomes include significant gains across all three arms, with greater gains for interventions that included a facilitated workshop compared with self-paced learning alone.
  
  
• Branchaw, J. L., Butz, A. R., & Smith, A. R. (2020). Evaluation of the Second Edition of Entering Research: A Customizable Curriculum for Apprentice-Style Undergraduate and Graduate Research Training Programs and Courses. CBE life sciences education, 19(1), ar11. 
  This paper describes the design and development of the 2nd Edition of Entering Research, a mentee training curriculum for undergraduate and graduate students.
  
  
• Sancheznieto, F., Asquith, P., Baez Bermejo, A., Meagher, E. A., & Pfund, C. E. (2024). Mentoring up for early career investigators: Empowering mentees to proactively engage in their mentoring relationships. Journal of Clinical and Translational Science, 8(1), e86. 
  This paper describes the development of a new curriculum, Mentoring Up for Early Career Investigators, to empower mentees to be proactive and develop the knowledge, skills, and confidence to navigate their mentoring relationships.
  
  
• Pfund, C., Sancheznieto, F., Byars-Winston, A., Zárate, S., Black, S., Birren, B., Rogers, J., & Asai, D. J. (2022). Evaluation of a Culturally Responsive Mentorship Education Program for the Advisers of Howard Hughes Medical Institute Gilliam Program Graduate Students. CBE Life Sciences Education, 21(3), ar50. 
  This paper describes the effectiveness of the HHMI Mentorship Skills Development (MSD) course, an innovative program that aims to advance mentors’ mentorship competencies and cultural diversity awareness.