Elevate your mentoring skills and maximize your impact on academic careers.
About the Faculty Mentorship Certificate Program:
This intensive 4-workshop certificate program equips WashU Medicine faculty with evidence-based strategies and practical tools to excel as mentors.
From guiding trainees and early-career faculty to supporting leadership transitions, you’ll develop the core competencies needed to transform mentoring relationships and accelerate career success across all academic levels.
Program Highlights:
- Develop advanced mentoring competencies tailored to different career stages and professional contexts
- Create personalized mentoring frameworks that adapt to individual mentee goals and needs
- Build confidence in addressing complex mentoring challenges and difficult conversations
- Establish sustainable mentoring relationships that promote mutual growth and professional satisfaction
- Develop and hone mentoring practices that integrate and honor multifaceted perspectives and experiences.
- Incorporate mentoring excellence throughout institutional culture and departmental practices.
Benefits of Becoming a Certified Faculty Mentor:
- Amplify your mentorship impact: See measurable improvements in mentee retention, satisfaction, and career success
- Expand your leadership toolkit: Develop leadership and communication skills applicable to a variety of leadership roles
- Build stronger professional networks: Foster deeper collegiality and collaborative relationships at WashU Medicine
- Enhance your institutional influence: Play a key role in faculty development and organizational improvement initiatives
Note: Faculty members are welcome to attend individual workshops based on their specific mentoring needs and interests. Choose the sessions that best fit your mentoring goals.
To earn the complete Mentorship Certificate, participants must attend all four workshops.
Program Sessions:
Focus: Mentoring trainees and new faculty (years 1-5)
Session Highlights: Research program and/or clinical practice establishment, coachability, communication, work-life integration, networking, and navigating promotions.
Choose between two specialized sessions:
Clinical Focus:
- In-Person Session: Tuesday, January 20, 2026 | 8:30 – 10:30 a.m.
- Virtual Session: Thursday, January 22, 2026 | 10 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Research Focus:
- Virtual Session: Thursday, February 5, 2026 | 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
- In-Person Session: Thursday, February 12, 2026 | 1 – 3 p.m.
Focus: Mentoring established faculty (years 6-15)
Session Highlights: Post-promotion transitions, leadership opportunities, research and clinical practice evolution, and career pivots.
Register for one of our two sessions:
- In-person: Tuesday, February 24, 2026 | 10 a.m. – 12 p.m.
- Virtual: Wednesday, February 25, 2026 | 2:30 – 4:30 p.m.
Focus: Cross-cultural mentoring, perspective-conscious practices, power dynamics, mentorship strategies promoting psychological safety
Register for one of our two sessions:
- In-person: Tuesday, April 14, 2026 | 9:30 – 11:30 a.m.
- Virtual: Thursday, April 16, 2026 | 9:30 – 11:30 a.m.
Focus: Mentoring senior faculty and leaders
Session Highlights: Leadership development, legacy building, succession planning, career reinvention
Register for one of our two sessions:
- In-person: Wednesday, May 13, 2026 | 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
- Virtual: Thursday, May 14, 2026 | 8:30 – 10:30 a.m.
Certificate Requirements:
- Attend all four 2-hour workshops (8 total contact hours)
- Complete the pre-workshop preparation
- Develop a personal mentoring philosophy statement
- Complete post-workshop reflection
- Commit to implementing learned strategies with current or future mentees
Have Questions?
For more information about the program or if you want to earn the Mentorship Certificate but are unable to attend all four sessions at this time, please contact Steve Taff, PhD, OTR/L, FNAP, FAOTA, at taffs@wustl.edu, or our team at medfacultyoffice@wustl.edu.
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