Advancing Gerontology through Exceptional Scholarship (AGES) : a Mentorship Initiative for Early Career Faculty

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Mentorship is critical to supporting professional development and growth of new and emerging faculty members. Working with the Gerontological Society of America (GSA), we created the Advancing Gerontology through Exceptional Scholarship (AGES) Initiative as a mentorship model to promote productivity and peer support for new and early career faculty members. In this commentary, we highlight the AGES Program as a prototype to facilitate peer support, collective learning, and co-authorship opportunities to advance new and early career faculty members, especially in the field of aging. Moreover, we identify four crucial strategies that cultivated and refined our AGES Program including: i) ensuring flexibility to address mentee needs; ii) establishing check-ins and accountability to enhance productivity; iii) fostering peer support and collective learning; and iv) delivering motivational and educational activities. Drawing on our experience with the AGES Program, this commentary provides recommendations to support other groups looking to develop high-quality mentorship programs to support new and early career faculty members in academia.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:27

Enthalten in:

Canadian geriatrics journal : CGJ - 27(2024), 1 vom: 28. März, Seite 80-84

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Bacsu, Juanita-Dawne R [VerfasserIn]
Rahemi, Zahra [VerfasserIn]
Petrovsky, Darina [VerfasserIn]
Sefcik, Justine S [VerfasserIn]
Kwan Ma, Kris Pui [VerfasserIn]
Baker, Zachary G [VerfasserIn]
Smith, Matthew Lee [VerfasserIn]

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Journal Article
Mentee
Mentor
Mentorship
Model
Peer support
Productivity
Professional growth

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Date Revised 05.03.2024

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.5770/cgj.27.700

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM369237501