Growing research capacity through distant learning, mentorship and international partnership

Dr Rebecca Wong - Princess Margaret Cancer Center, Toronto, Canada

Through these four cohorts of experience, increasing our involvement and relationship, we concluded that this Clinical Research Mentorship Program, as has been delivered, was able to increase capacity through mentorship, international collaboration and virtual learning. What we want to do is continue to grow it so that ultimately in the long term mentoring and clinical research become part of the culture of all the clinical centres wherever you are. To do that our methods will contribute.

We also want to introduce the Mentoring the Mentor to our mentees so that as they are learning, seeing how others are mentoring them, also gain the experience about the evidence behind how to be a good mentor so that they can better pass it along. In fact, we already started doing that. We invited some of our early alumni to come back to be junior mentors and the early experience has been really quite positive.