As a follow-up to our discussion today please see below for the email of Rochelle: rochelle.tractenberg@gmail.com
I am also attaching her email to provide additional details of her work
Thanks, Amarjot
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From: rochelle.tractenberg@gmail.com [mailto:rochelle.tractenberg@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Rochelle E Tractenberg
Sent: Saturday, July 20, 2013 8:06 AM
To: Amarjot Kaur; Erin Tanenbaum
Subject: ASA CAS Mentor Program
Hello, I am a member of the ASA and have been a consulting statistician/biostatistician since 1997. One of my current areas of research is how we document the capabilities of mentors do be effective mentors - the domain this research is happening in is "responsible conduct of research". My first PhD is in cognitive science, and I have created a curriculum building and evaluation tool that might be useful for the CAS mentor program. Specifically, it can be challenging to facilitate some (any) uniformity in terms of what all mentors try to help their mentees achieve. The tool (called a Mastery Rubric) has been used to map a 2-year post graduate certificate curriculum and to evaluate and revise a research "rotation" for pathology residents, and spanning the career from very early to mentorship in two domains (evidence based medicine, responsible conduct of research) <these three were published or are in revision (EVM); and two more of these career-spanning models are in prep (laboratory skills and statistical literacy). The research rotation poster describing the new approach to the pathology residency research training included a second part, trying to understand what a group needs to have in order to create a new Mastery Rubric for their own uses. That approach was then used in my pro bono work with the Capital Area Food Bank (in Washington, DC) to outline and articulate staff development training objectives and to target programs.
Without some structure to a program's creation, it makes it impossible to gauge the effectiveness of mentorship or the mentor program itself
- so it also makes it impossible to evaluate the successes and challenges of the program. I am not in the CAS section, but I would very much like to determine if the CAS mentor program can use this tool for its mentor program. The tool requires a lot of work, but a great deal of structure -for identifying mentors and certifying, bringing-up-to-certification level and giving them opportunities for growth in their mentorship skills, as well as for the participants - in return for this up front investment.
I will be at JSM in montreal presenting a poster that describes this tool, and I would love the opportunity to discuss it with you further, if possible.
Thanks very much!
Sincerely,
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Rochelle E. Tractenberg, Ph. D., M.P.H., Ph.D., PStat(r) Director, Collaborative for Research on Outcomes and -Metrics http://crom.gumc.georgetown.edu Associate Professor Neurology Biostatistics, Bioinformatics & Biomathematics Psychiatry Georgetown University Medical Center
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4000 Reservoir Road NW
Washington, D.C. 20057
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Amarjot Kaur
Executive Director
Merck & Co Inc
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