Faculty Mentoring Program Resource Hub

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As part of the UMSON faculty mentoring program, this resource hub is a 24/7 self-service resource hub for mentors, mentees, and anyone interested in exploring tools to support your learning needs. This resource provides all UMSON faculty with web-based, up-to-date information, including links to tools and opportunities that support, enhance, and advance the faculty member’s career goals and success. One way to proactively grow your career is to take advantage of the opportunities at your disposal.

The resources compiled here are gathered from UMSON; the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB); and externally. They address the broad and diverse learning needs of UMSON faculty across academic domains and the different stages of professional development, from novice to expert. They can support the faculty’s desire for new information on a particular topic or supplement the process and goals of a mentoring relationship.

The content is organized by subject and professional domains. Each domain is sub-divided according to where the resource is located (on the UMSON website, the UMB website, or an external website).

Domains:

  1. Introductory Material on Mentoring
  2. UMSON Organizational Structure and Culture
  3. Scholarship and Research
  4. Teaching
  5. Community Service
  6. Leadership
  7. Diversity and Inclusion
  8. Personal and Professional Well-Being
  9. Communication Resources

If you have any questions, please email Darlene Trandel.

Introductory Material on Mentoring

This section provides information to support learning about the knowledge and practices of mentoring for both the mentor and mentee. The resources examine the structure and process of mentoring from beginning to end and offer strategies and techniques to manage intentional and engaging mentoring relationships. Topics include preparing for and building the mentoring relationship, establishing agreements, role expectations, goals, support, insights, challenges and obstacles, feedback, and closure.

UMSON Organizational Structure and Culture

Scholarship and Research

UMSON Resources

  • Research and Scholarship team: provides mentorship, statistical and submission support, quality assurance, collaboration and interfacing with other UMSON and University System of Maryland entities; contact: Erika Friedmann, PhD, professor and associate dean for research
  • Biology and Behavior Across the Lifespan (BBAL) Organized Research Center: investigates the management of disease, the optimization of health, and the ways in which biological findings can influence disease prevalence and progression 
  • Center to Advance Chronic Pain Research (CACPR): a campus-wide entity that seeks to promote cutting edge basic, translational, and clinical biomedical research that will advance our understanding and treatment of chronic pain
  • Center for Health Equity and Outcomes Research (CHEOR): aims to improve health outcomes and eliminate health inequities
  • Placebo Beyond Opinions (PBO) Center: promotes interdisciplinary investigation of the placebo phenomenon in health care and nurtures a higher education placebo research program
  • Symptom Science Using Neuroscientific and Psychological Approaches (SYNAPSE) Center: conducts research to predict, prevent, and treat medical symptoms by leveraging research on the psychology of mental states and perception along with their underlying neurobiological substrates
  • Human Subjects Research Compliance and Education: manages the pre-institutional review board (IRB) process, helps investigators in developing preliminary strategies for IRB submissions, provides consultation regarding human subject research regulatory, and compliance issues and assists in responding to IRB inquires during the review process
  • Human Subjects Research Training Guide: resource document with information about university resources and guidelines for human subjects research, including information on training
  • Monthly Research Seminar Series: brings in speakers from UMSON and other institutions to talk about various topics related to research, with past presentations available online
  • Research Quality Improvement: works with faculty on understanding and following good clinical practices for human subjects research, provides guidance and practice on study self-monitoring, assists with clinicaltrials.gov submissions and updates, pre-reviews all IRB submissions, and assists in clarifying intent and language
    Contact: Casey Jackson, MS, CCRP
  • Research Resources: a landing page with information on pre- and post-award processes and policies and information on human subjects research and pre-clinical research compliance and education, along with other resources 

UMB Scholarship and Research

State- and National-Level Scholarship and Research

Teaching

UMSON Resources

  • Blackboard Collaborate: resource for getting started and using Blackboard 
  • Clinical Placements (STEPS/Exxat software) (Requires UMSON UMID for login): includes graduate STEPS tutorial videos (pre-semester checklist, course setup, placements, course management, etc.) and entry-into-practice tutorial videos
  • Degree Works (Requires UMSON UMID for login): user guides, including those for faculty advisors, step-by-step instructions for Degree Works, and templates
  • Evidence-Based Practice Online (Requires UMSON UMID for login): describes the process of using evidence-based practice via online modules, resources for further learning, and reusable learning objects for classes
  • Faculty Web Trainings (Requires UMSON UMID for login): trainings include student grade entry and accessing live student data to facilitate the faculty member’s role as an advisor
  • Office of Learning Technology: develops innovative services to keep faculty, staff, and students up to date in online learning education and research with sections of the website dedicated to faculty and staff technology, teaching resources, and learning technology resources
  • Institute for Educators: prepares nurses for faculty roles in academic centers or clinical settings as well as for ongoing professional development program
  • Teaching in Nursing and Health Professions Certificate: a 12-credit online post-master’s program to prepare nurses and health professionals for teaching roles
  • Teach/Tech/Together in 10: 10-minute webinars that focus on up-to-date information about technology, teaching, and working/learning together (diversity and inclusion)
  • UMB Leaders in Education: Academy of Presidential Scholars (LEAPS): The LEAPS Council and its membership work to promote and graduate leaders who will shape social justice, legal justice, and health care education.

UMB Resources

Off-Campus Resources

Community Service

UMSON Resources

  • Alumni “Get Involved”: landing page with ways for alumni to volunteer and give back to the university
  • Faculty Council: mechanism by which the Faculty Assembly is engaged in shared governance, policy making, exchange of information, and staff and student concerns
  • Professional Service Opportunities: Nursing Practice Council and its subcommittees that meet quarterly and are affiliated with UMSON and the University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS)
  • UMNursing: research partnership between University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC) and UMSON
  • UMSON in the Community: service opportunities that include the Governor’s Wellmobile Program, Office of Global Health, Community and Public Health Environmental Initiative, and more

UMB Resources

  • Community/Engagement Center: partners with UMB for volunteer opportunities; full-time faculty and staff can use four hours of paid leave to volunteer at a qualifying nonprofit organization of their choice during the calendar year
  • Office of Community Engagement: UMB’s liaison to communities across the state of Maryland that coordinates faculty, staff, and student volunteer and service-learning initiatives to respond to needs identified by community partners
  • UM Partnership with West Baltimore: community partnership between the Westside of Baltimore, UMB, and the University of Maryland Medical Center to build and support a healthy empowered socially cohesive and revitalized community

Leadership

UMSON Resources

  • Practice/Academic Partnerships: UMSON has an academic-practice partnership with the University of Maryland Medical Center to support pre-licensure nursing students and nursing faculty
  • Nurse Leadership Institute: development program that supports the growth of nurse leaders in Maryland

UMB Resources

  • Emerging Leaders: cohort-based professional development program through a series of interactive and information sessions designed to build repeatable and transferable knowledge and skills
  • Intercultural Leadership and Engagement (ILE): initiative to provide academic and social support to historically underrepresented populations while enhancing skills for intercultural development and intergroup dialogue
  • President’s Council for Women: group that works to ensure equity, opportunity, and fulfillment for all women in the UMB community
  • UMB Roundtable on Empowerment in Leadership and Leveraging Aspirations (UMBrella): networking program to enhance leadership skills and support success of women with affinity groups, coaching, a speaker series, scholarships, and a resource toolkit

Off-Campus Resources

Diversity and Inclusion

UMSON Resources

UMB Resources

  • Diversity Advisory Council: group within the Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion that identifies opportunities within and outside the university that enhance training and professional development in valuing diversity and cultural competency
  • Intercultural Leadership and Engagement (ILE): group working toward the continuation of existing Student Affairs initiatives and the creation of new initiatives that help all community members feel a sense of belonging on campus, including anti-oppression trainings and professional development
  • Office of the Ombuds: helps UMB faculty and staff express concerns, resolve disputes, manage conflict, seek fair and equitable solutions, and learn more productive ways of communicating

Off-Campus Resources

Personal and Professional Well-Being Resources

UMSON and UMB Resources

Off-Campus Resources

Communication Resources

UMB Resources

Off-Campus Resources

  • Active Listening: Hearing someone is one thing, but truly listening? Now, that’s a whole other story. With a little practice, it’s possible to learn how to be a better listener.
  • The Art of Empathetic Conversation: While both active and empathetic listening involve giving our full attention, the latter places particular attention on understanding the other person’s emotional experience.
  • Coursera Courses on Communication Skills: free courses on communication skills, including topics such as negotiation, group communication, managing emotions, and more
  • MindTools Career Skills: toolkit on career planning with resources on developing strengths, building effective relationships, navigating challenges, and more 
  • MindTools Communication Skills: toolkit with a variety of resources on business communication skills 
  • Values in Action: free psychometrically validated personality test that measures an individual’s character strengths