Open Access15: Team Mentoring: An Alternative Way to Mentor New Faculty
Author(s) -
Gray Tara,
Birch A. Jane
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
to improve the academy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2334-4822
DOI - 10.1002/j.2334-4822.2008.tb00511.x
Subject(s) - protégé , medical education , psychology , pedagogy , medicine , computer science , world wide web , semantic web
Traditional mentoring programs usually have no mechanism for protégés to learn from each other, and they often match protégés with mentors sight unseen. Team mentoring is a less hierarchical program in which protégés mentor each other in a group while searching for more permanent and personal mentors. In this program, protégés and mentors are arguably better matched because mentors are chosen by the protégés. In addition, protégés benefit by tapping into the wisdom of their peers. As a result, team mentoring is a viable alternative to traditional mentoring programs.