Mentoring minority trainees: Minorities in academia face specific challenges that mentors should address to instill confidence

Affiliations

¹ Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa - Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA, USA.
² Fraternal Order of Eagles Diabetes Research Center, Iowa City, IA, USA.
³ Department of Cell and Tissue Biology, University of California- San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
⁴ Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
⁵ Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
⁶ Department of Biological Sciences, Winston-Salem State University, Winston-Salem, NC, USA.
⁷ Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics and Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA.

Antentor O Hinton Jr et al. EMBO Rep. 2020.

. 2020 Oct 5;21(10):e51269.

doi: 10.15252/embr.202051269. Epub 2020 Sep 28.

¹ Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa - Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA, USA.
² Fraternal Order of Eagles Diabetes Research Center, Iowa City, IA, USA.
³ Department of Cell and Tissue Biology, University of California- San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
⁴ Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
⁵ Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
⁶ Department of Biological Sciences, Winston-Salem State University, Winston-Salem, NC, USA.
⁷ Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics and Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA.

Abstract

A toolkit for mentoring minority students and trainees in science.

The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

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