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How to Find a Mentor

GHIG: Summer Research Lecture Series. How to Find a Mentor. 9/22/2010. Outline. Preparing to contact mentors Global Health Networking Reception ! Center for Global Health site Finding your own project Student perspectives Final Reminders. Preparing to Contact Potential Mentors.

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How to Find a Mentor

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  1. GHIG: Summer Research Lecture Series How to Find a Mentor 9/22/2010

  2. Outline • Preparing to contact mentors • Global Health Networking Reception! • Center for Global Health site • Finding your own project • Student perspectives • Final Reminders

  3. Preparing to Contact Potential Mentors • It helps if you are interested in a particular country or topic area (infectious diseases, surgery, psychiatry etc) • If you’re not sure, or are willing to go where your mentor may lead you, then be sure to mention that • Be persistent! Sometimes faculty are busy, and may not respond immediately…

  4. Primary Contacts • Dr. Peter Veldkamp • Dr. Thuy Bui • Dr. Joan Harvey

  5. Global Health Networking Reception!!! • GHIG has invited faculty, residents in the global health medicine tracks, and other students who have done international work • Great opportunity to network and informally speak with them about opportunities abroad and gain contact information!!! • Tuesday, September 28th, 6-8pm, BST-S100A

  6. Center for Global Health website • http://www.globalhealth.pitt.edu/about/affiliate-faculty.php • Lists affiliated faculty, contact details and areas of specialization/research interest

  7. Finding your own project… • AMSA has international opportunities site (http://www.amsa.org/global/ih/ihopps.cfm)

  8. Finding your own project… • Remember even if you decide to research work with an outside organization , to qualify for funding from Pitt, you will need to find a faculty mentor in addition to a local mentor

  9. Student Perspectives

  10. Final Reminders • Next noon lecture: Funding opportunities • Remember to RSVP for (and attend!) the Global Health Networking Reception 9/28/2010 • Sign up for the GHIG mailing list if you haven’t done so already!

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