Comment From the EditorsMentoring the Mentor: Another Tool to Enhance Mentorship
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Overview of Mentoring
Mentoring requires a desire and some effort though; like many other skills, those who do it well do so selflessly, effortlessly, and even unconsciously. For the many of us in whom such skills are not inborn, there is a basic set of information that needs to be imparted at the earliest stages so that potential mentees still benefit from the rewards of appropriate mentorship. Mentorship has no age, gender, or ethnic limitations, so anyone willing can serve such a noble role. A valued mentor is
Promoting the Mentoring of Mentors
The benefits of mentoring lend support to strategies to devise and implement tools to further disseminate and improve mentoring skills. Several measures can be envisioned to promote and highlight the mentoring of mentors. First, is to build on existing workshops such as the 2008 Academic Skills Workshop that was sponsored by the AGA Institute and the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases.22 This outstanding and long-running annual workshop, established >10 years ago by Eugene
Acknowledgments
The author is immensely and forever indebted to mentors Harry B. Greenberg, Jon I. Isenberg, Martin F. Kagnoff, David R. Powers, Wayne M. Stalick, and Ian S. Trowbridge, who have guided and helped shape his academic career. The author thanks Kim E. Barrett, Douglas A. Drossman, Gregory J. Gores, Juanita L. Merchant, Judith Podskalny, Anil K. Rustgi, Robert S. Sandler, George Triadafilopoulos, and James O. Woolliscroft for their reading of the commentary and very helpful suggestions; Anthony R.
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