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Compact Between Postdoctoral Appointees and Their Mentors

Compact Documents

Compact Between
Postdoctoral Appointees
and Their Mentors
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of the compact, please visit Publications.

For more information, contact:
Jodi Lubetsky, Ph.D.
GREAT Group Executive Secretary
jlubetsky@aamc.org

Related Resources

Group on Graduate, Research, Education, and Training (GREAT)

Compact Between Resident Physicians and Their Teachers

The Compact Between Postdoctoral Appointees and Their Mentors is intended to initiate discussions at the local and national levels about the postdoctoral appointee-mentor relationship and the commitments necessary for a high quality postdoctoral training experience. The Compact was drafted by the AAMC Group on Graduate Research, Education, and Training (GREAT) and its Postdoctorate Committee, and it is modeled on the AAMC Compact Between Resident Physicians and Their Teachers.

Input on the document was received from the GREAT Group Representatives, members of the AAMC governance, and other members of the postdoctoral community, including the National Postdoctoral Association. We encourage members of the postdoctoral community to utilize and share this document. Download the Compact >>

Possible Uses

The compact is intended to provide postdoctoral program directors, administrators, faculty, postdoctoral appointees, and other institutional leaders with a model document that might be used as is, or as modified in accordance with local circumstances. Among the potential uses that have been suggested are the following:

As a starting point for discussions among postdoctoral program directors, administrators, faculty, postdoctoral appointees, and other institutional leaders about the issues addressed by the compact
As a recruitment tool to signify programmatic commitment to postdoctoral appointees
As an attachment to offer letters from mentors to postdoctoral appointees
As part of a contract that could be signed by the postdoctoral appointees and their mentors as a pledge to uphold its commitments
As part of the orientation for new postdoctoral appointees
As part of the orientation for new faculty
As a component of the appointee-mentor annual evaluation process
As a topic to be discussed in faculty mentorship programs
As a component of faculty evaluations
As part of an educational database for faculty promotion

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