National Research Mentoring Network

The NRMN initiative will develop a highly networked set of motivated and skilled mentors from a variety of biomedical research disciplines linked to mentees from the undergraduate to early career faculty level across the country – both from BUILD institutions and elsewhere. 

Research Support for Mentorship

Role models may steer students from underrepresented groups toward scientific careers.

• Dennery, Training and retaining of underrepresented minority physician scientists – an African-American perspective: NICHD AAP workshop on research in neonatal and perinatal medicine.
• Frank, D.L., Rinehart, J., Kenney, K. (2016). Supporting faculty mentoring through the use of creative technologies: There’s an app for that. Journal of Mentoring. 
• Karpa et al., Medical student service learning program teaches secondary students about career opportunities in health and medical fields.
• Valcarcel et al., Training and retaining of underrepresented minority physician scientists – a Hispanic perspective: NICHD-AAP workshop on research in neonatology.

Mentorship has a positive impact on career trajectories of all scientists, but underrepresented groups have difficulty finding mentors with similar backgrounds or experiences.

• Andrews, The Other Physician-scientist Problem: Where Have All the Young Girls Gone?
• McLean et al., Twelve Tips for Teachers to Encourage Student Engagement in Academic Medicine
• Rubio et al., A Comprehensive Career-success Model for Physician–scientists.