Mentors Across Borders
About Us
Mentors Across Borders (MAB) is a dynamic and diverse international community of Leaders in Health Professions Education, united by a shared passion for mentoring and nurturing fellow educators as well as scholarship. This community aims to promote collegial global conversations about important educational topics in a psychologically safe space to interact, share success stories and challenges, and potentially enhance professional identity.
More details here.
Who We Are
This group is modeled on the Community of Practice model described by Lave and Wenger. Such groups can be formed spontaneously or deliberately and come together through a shared passion and interest. Group membership is flexible and individuals can choose to be at the core of the group or participate more peripherally.
Leadership Core
MAB features a core group of educators who make key decisions about group initiatives, organize and present virtual mentoring, world café events and Twitter chats, and collaborate on team scholarship. View our leadership core here.
Our Leadership Core
Mentors at Large
The group includes and welcomes educators who wish to take on specific roles and participate in select initiatives.
If you wish to join the group as a Mentor at Large, email us.
Mentors at Large
- Erik Alexander, USA
- Nobutaro Ban, Japan
- Katherine Boursicot, Singapore
- Margaret Chisolm, USA
- Chaoyan Dong, Singapore
- Kristina Dzara, USA
- Thankorn Jirasevijinda, USA
- Susan Lieff, Canada
- Patricia O’Sullivan, USA
- Joan Sargeant, Canada
- Kent Stobart, Canada
- Teri Lee Turner, USA
- Susan van Schalkwyk, South Africa
Events
Upcoming
- BEI Global Med Ed Café sessions
- Tweet chats #HPEMentorChat
- Prior #HPEMentorChats featured topics including resilience and wellbeing and scholarship in education. #HPEMentorChats are led by Keith Wilson.
Prior
- BEI Global Med Ed Café with Cees Van der Vleuten, PhD, discussing Assessment and Health Professions Education
- BEI Global Med Ed Café with Judy McKimm, MBA, MA (Ed) discussing Leading Change During Difficult Circumstances
- BEI Global Med Ed Café with Harish Thampy MB ChB, MMEd, FRCGP, PFHEA discussing Clinical Reasoning in the Clinical Care Setting
- BEI Global Med Ed Café with Ardi Findyartini, MD, PhD discussing Context, Culture & Medical Education: Perspectives from Asian Educational Leaders
- BEI Global Med Ed Café with Chris Watling MD, MMEd, PhD, FRCP(C) discussing Culture, Credibility and Mindset in Feedback and Coaching
- BEI Global Med Ed Café with Medical Students: Lestat Ali, Abdullah Al-Khafajy, Phillipa Lantwin, and Azhar Adam Nadkar discussing How the Pandemic affected Medical Education from the perspectives of Medical Students from around the Globe
- Virtual World Cafés have included topics such as wellbeing and resilience, leadership in HPE, teaching and learning during the pandemic. Two were organized specifically for an medical student members of the International and European medical student associations.
- Facilitators included a global team of leaders in Health Professions Education: Subha Ramani, Vishna Devi Nadarajah, Ardi Findyartini, Jocelyn Lockyer, Joan Sargeant, Judy McKimm, Harish Thampy, William Dafoe, Elizabeth Kachur, Alice Fornari, Thanakorn Jirasevijinda, Kent Stobart, David Irby, Teri Lee Turner, Rashmi Kusurkar, Helena Filipe, Keith Wilson
Resources
Publications from the group:
- Twelve tips for organizing speed mentoring events for healthcare professionals at small or large-scale venues
- From clinical educators to educational scholars and leaders: strategies for developing and advancing a career in health professions education
- Virtual speed mentoring in challenging times
- Capturing the wisdom of the crowd: health professions’ educators meet at a virtual world café
- Twelve tips for developing a global community of scholars in health professions education
- Collaborative writing for clinical educators: recommendations from a community of scholars
- AMEE guide on collaborative writing (in progress)
Initiatives led at individual institutions (forthcoming)
Recommended readings from the group
Photos from our Events
Contact Us
For additional information about the Mentors Across Borders community, email us.