Establishing online mentorship for early career researchers: Lessons from the Organization for Human Brain Mapping International Mentoring Programme

Natalia Bielczyk; Michele Veldsman; Ayaka Ando; Chiara Caldinelli; Meena M Makary; Aki Nikolaidis; Marzia A Scelsi; Melanie Stefan; OHBM Student and Postdoc Special Interest Group; AmanPreet Badhwar

doi:10.1111/ejn.14320

Establishing online mentorship for early career researchers: Lessons from the Organization for Human Brain Mapping International Mentoring Programme

Eur J Neurosci. 2019 May;49(9):1069-1076. doi: 10.1111/ejn.14320. Epub 2019 Jan 20.

Authors

Natalia Bielczyk¹, Michele Veldsman^{2

3}, Ayaka Ando⁴, Chiara Caldinelli⁵, Meena M Makary^{6

7

8}, Aki Nikolaidis⁹, Marzia A Scelsi¹⁰, Melanie Stefan^{11

12}; OHBM Student and Postdoc Special Interest Group; AmanPreet Badhwar^{13

14}

Affiliations

¹ Stichting Solaris Onderzoek en Ontwikkeling, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
² Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
³ The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
⁴ Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Centre for Psychosocial Medicine, University of Heidel-berg, Heidelberg, Germany.
⁵ Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland.
⁶ Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.
⁷ The John B. Pierce Laboratory, New Haven, Connecticut.
⁸ Faculty of Engineering, Systems and Biomedical Engineering Department, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt.
⁹ Center for the Developing Brain, Child Mind Institute, New York city, New York.
¹⁰ Department of Medical Physics and Bioengineering, Centre for Medical Image Computing, University College London, London, UK.
¹¹ Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
¹² ZJU-UoE Institute, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Haining, Zhejiang, China.
¹³ Centre de Recherche de l'Institut Universitaire de Gériatrie de Montréal (CRIUGM), Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
¹⁴ Université de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

PMID: 30589962
DOI: 10.1111/ejn.14320

Abstract

Mentorship facilitates personal growth through pairing trainees with mentors who can share their expertise. In times of global integration, geographical proximity between mentors and mentees is relevant to a lesser degree. This has led to popularization of online mentoring programs. In this editorial, we introduce the history and architecture of the International Online Mentoring Programme organized by the Student and Postdoc Special Interest Group of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping.

Keywords: Career development; early career researchers; mentoring; online mentoring programme; organization for human brain mapping.

Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

Brain Mapping*
Education, Distance / methods*
Humans
Mentoring / methods*
Neurosciences / education*
Research Personnel / education*