As science professionals, we believe it is our responsibility to individually self-educate and improve our skillsets as mentors and to advocate for community-level change in training. Poor mentorship can be pathway-altering and career-ending for mentees. As part of this self-learning journey, we highly recommend reading through and reviewing:

• NASEM’s The Science of Effective Mentorship in STEMM (Mentoring Tools, Mentorship Defined)

• “Looking at Myself in the Future”: how mentoring shapes scientific identity for STEM students from underrepresented groups by Atkins et al. (2020)
  

Other tools we have not provided that are useful for mentoring relationships include:

• Individual Development Plans: Example 1, Example 2

• Mentorship Statements: Example 1

• Mentorship Self-Accountability Plans:
  -What goals do you have for your own mentoring?
  -How will you ensure your mentoring is equitable?
  -How will you know if your mentorship goals are being met?
  -What indicators/evidence will you use?

• Mentorship Assessment Surveys (see example below)