Dear Colleague, The educational needs of mentees, mentors, and mentors-in-training are enormous. A subject of debate is: is there a dearth of resources to meet those needs or simply a lack of awareness about many excellent programs? This year, MedEdMentoring will be at the American Association of Geriatric Psychiatry and the American Geriatrics Society annual meetings exhibiting how many of your colleagues are finding, accessing and integrating NIMH-supported resources into their day-to-day work, career, and education. First on the agenda is the AAGP in early March. In addition to a poster presentation and an exhibit booth, MedEdMentoring will host a symposium entitled "Using Modern Technology to Support a Career in Geriatric Mental Health Research." The presenters are Stephen J. Bartels, MD, MS; Martha L. Bruce, PhD, MPH; Enid Light, PhD; and Brian Shanahan. If you're planning to be in New Orleans, be sure to stop by and say hello! We’ll also have a Free Tools and Resources package available at the booth. We look forward to seeing you there. Sincerely, Stephen J. Bartels, MD, MS; Martha L. Bruce, PhD, MPH; Maureen Halpain, MS; Barry D. Lebowitz, PhD; Charles F. Reynolds III, MD; Gwenn Smith, PhD; Joel E. Streim, MD; Jürgen Unützer, MD, MPH, MA

MedicalUpdates
Shared geriatric mental health care in a rural community.
Sullivan MP, Parenteau P, Dolansky D, Leon S, Le Clair JK.
Can J Rural Med. 2007 Winter;12(1):22-9.
Shared-care strategies combining education and clinical consultation between mentor psychiatrists and family physicians were evaluated to identify key factors in the success of approaches to shared mental health care for older people in a rural setting.

A RAND/Hartford initiative to build interdisciplinary geriatric health care research centers.
Pincus HA, Keyser DJ, Schultz DJ
Health Aff (Millwood). 2007 Jan-Feb;26(1):279-83
Interdisciplinary education, mentoring, and training opportunities, particularly for junior investigators, are the critical components necessary to foster multiprofessional research endeavors.

Mentoring and its impact on intellectual capital: through the eyes of the mentee.
Thomka LA.
Nurs Adm Q. 2007 Jan-Mar;31(1):22-6
Several key results from a study of mentorship in nursing support the concept of ongoing knowledge sharing within the discipline, as seen through the eyes of the mentee.

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General
Developing a Mentoring Program at Your Institution
Christopher Martin, PhD
In this presentation, Dr. Martin reviews the steps and planning involved in implementing a mentoring program at an academic research institution.

Geriatric
Statistical Support for Geriatric Mental Health Research
Donna S. Neuberg, ScD
In this presentation, Dr. Neuberg outlines how to collaborate with a statistician when developing a research plan.


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Promoting Minority Access to Health Careers through Health Profession-Public School Partnerships: A Review of the Literature.
Patterson DG, Carline JD.
Acad Med. 2006 Jun;81(6 Suppl):S5-S10.
Partnerships between health profession schools and public schools provide a framework for developing comprehensive, creative solutions to the problem of minority underrepresentation in health careers.

Geriatric
Mentoring geriatric nurse scientists, educators, clinicians, and leaders in the John A. Hartford Foundation Centers for Geriatric Nursing Excellence.
Maas ML, Strumpf NE, Beck C, Jennings D, Messecar D, Swanson E.
Nurs Outlook. 2006 Jul-Aug;54(4):183-8.
Mentoring is a key component of the John A. Hartford Foundation’s initiative on Building Academic Geriatric Nursing Capacity (BAGNC). This article discusses the concept of mentoring broadly to include not only one-to-one mentor-mentee relationships, but also comprehensive approaches to faculty, diverse levels of students, and community partners.


InTheNews
NIH Center for Scientific Review to Host Open House Workshops to Improve the Review of NIH Grant Applications
NIH News, January 22, 2007
Starting in March 2007, the Center for Scientific Review (CSR) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will convene the first of six one-day Open House Workshops in 2007 to solicit input from leaders of the scientific community and other stakeholders.

Open Access to Science Under Attack
Scientific American.com, January 26, 2007
Advocates of open access to scientific research may find themselves under fire from high-profile public relations flaks and high-powered lobbying groups hired by traditional publishers.

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