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.)

All basic science graduate programs have adopted a unified policy:

Faculty will participate in at least one mentorship development activity of their choosing each year they have a student in their lab.

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 — Student Disability Services serves, supports, and empowers UCSF students with disabilities by ensuring equitable access to fully and holistically participate in all areas of the university experience.
• Adviser, Teacher, Role Model, Friend: On Being a Mentor to Students in Science and Engineering (free publication from the National Academy of Sciences)