For Summer Mentors/Preceptors and All NIH Staff

To All NIH Investigators and Staff

NIH Summer Research Program Poster Day 2017 is scheduled for Thursday, ^{August 10th} in the Natcher Conference Center.  Whether you are hosting a summer intern this year or not, we hope you will mark your calendar, try to attend, and encourage members of your lab to turn out.  Poster Day provides the interns with an opportunity to share their science with the NIH community, but it only works if the NIH community shows up.

To summer mentors/preceptors

If you or one of your trainees is mentoring a summer intern, thank you!  We know that this represents a significant investment of time and energy.

Should you have questions or want some advice, please feel free to contact your IC Training Director, the staff in the NIH Office of Intramural Training & Education (OITE), or the OITE Career Services Center.

Resources

The following books and brochures are available in the OITE Career Services Library on the second floor of Building 2:

• The NIH Guide to Training and Mentoring
• The NIH Guide to Scientific Record Keeping
• The NIH Guide for the Conduct of Research
• Entering Mentoring, A Seminar to Train a New Generation of Scientists, (Howard Hughes Medical Institute) 2005.  This guide, developed by HHMI Professor Jo Handelsman and her colleagues and co-founders of the Wisconsin Program for Scientific Teaching at he University of Madison, Wisconsin, raises questions about teaching expectations; mentoring as a function of training new teachers; and dealing with diverse learning styles, personal styles, ethnicity, experience, gender, and nationality.
• Getting the Most out of Your Mentoring Relationships, A Handbook for Women in STEM,  Donna J. Dean (Springer) 2009.  A structured guide to being mentored in science, technology, engineering, or math.
• Adviser, Teacher, Role Model, Friend: On Being a Mentor to Students in Science and Engineering (National Academy of Sciences) 1997.

Training

• Mentoring Seminar for Graduate Students and Postdocs: Tips for Mentoring a Summer Intern
  Description: Soon the summer interns will descend on the NIH, and your PI may put one or more of them under your charge. Do you know what your intern(s) will do this summer? Have you thought about the best way to design a summer project for a novice? This Webinar offers tips on how to help shape the future of the next generation of scientists, while moving your own projects forward (and preserving your sanity!).  This workshop has not yet been scheduled.
  View an earlier videocast [RAM, Total Running Time: 55:54]
• Summer Research Mentor Training
  This 4-week long mentoring course is for postbacs, graduate students, postdocs, and staff scientists/staff clinicians who will be training our summer interns. It will use a highly interactive format to cover mentoring issues "just in time", as they are likely to emerge. Topics include:
  
  • Effectively establishing mentor-mentee expectations
  • Developing strategies for helping mentees build confidence, independence, creativity, and communication skills
  • Improving cultural competency in mentoring
  • Developing a mentoring philosophy.