Shadow mentoring: a cost-benefit review for reform

Brionna Davis-Reyes; Chrystal Starbird; Aileen I Fernandez; Terika McCall; Antentor O Hinton Jr; Christina M Termini

doi:10.1016/j.trecan.2022.05.001

Shadow mentoring: a cost-benefit review for reform

Trends Cancer. 2022 Aug;8(8):620-622. doi: 10.1016/j.trecan.2022.05.001. Epub 2022 Jun 4.

Authors

Brionna Davis-Reyes¹, Chrystal Starbird², Aileen I Fernandez³, Terika McCall⁴, Antentor O Hinton Jr⁵, Christina M Termini⁶

Affiliations

¹ Yale University, Department of Radiology & Biomedical Imaging, Department of Psychiatry, New Haven, CT, USA.
² Yale University, Department of Pharmacology, Yale Cancer Biology Institute, New Haven, CT, USA.
³ Yale School of Medicine, Department of Pathology, New Haven, CT, USA.
⁴ Yale School of Public Health, Department of Biostatistics, Division of Health Informatics, New Haven, CT, USA; Yale School of Medicine, Center for Medical Informatics, New Haven, CT, USA.
⁵ Vanderbilt University, Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Nashville, TN, USA. Electronic address: [email protected].
⁶ Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Clinical Research Division, Seattle, WA, USA. Electronic address: [email protected].

Abstract

Shadow mentoring relationships are those outside of traditional mentoring roles and are an unseen yet critical component of trainee retention that is rarely acknowledged. In this paper, we detail the costs and benefits of shadow mentoring and propose mechanisms to ensure that shadow mentoring is acknowledged as a vital contribution to scientific communities.

Keywords: career development; mentoring; minority tax; retention.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

Cost-Benefit Analysis
Humans
Mentoring*
Mentors

Abstract

Publication types

MeSH terms

Grants and funding