Mentoring Graduate Students

Mentoring the next generation of researchers is a shared professional responsibility of all faculty members, and a good mentoring relationship is crucial to the success of all graduate students. (See also, special considerations for mentoring postdocs.)

In addition to the resources in the menu at right, the following external links may be helpful to you.

• Faculty Mentoring Toolkit (published by the Chancellor's Council on Faculty Life and the UCSF Faculty Mentoring Program)
• Supporting students with disabilities — UCSF Faculty Training Series, an 8-part guide for faculty who work with students with disabilities, produced by UCSF Medical Student Disability Services and UCSF Student Disability Services in partnership with colleagues from around the country
• Adviser, Teacher, Role Model, Friend: On Being a Mentor to Students in Science and Engineering (free publication from the National Academy of Sciences)