Call for Letters to the Editor From Trainees: Mentorship Matters

Academic Medicine is seeking original submissions for our Letters to the Editor feature from medical students, residents, and fellows, as well as trainees in other health professions on the topic of why mentorship has mattered in your professional journey. The editors are seeking letters that describe an experience with a mentor, sponsor, or coach, and how this experience has promoted, or perhaps challenged, your professional development. A successful letter will not simply highlight a positive or negative experience—or be a tribute to an individual mentor—but will illuminate how your mentorship experience influenced your self-understanding, identity, or growth as a professional in health care and/or the biomedical sciences. We expect you to use your personal experience to illustrate the point, but the purpose of the letter should be to communicate a broader issue or idea that has relevance for others throughout academic medicine. Submissions that are strictly narrative will not be considered for publication. Authors wishing to submit a strictly narrative piece should explore the journal’s Teaching and Learning Moments manuscript type as an option. If you would like to submit a letter for consideration, please see our formatting for Letters to the Editor and submit your letter between 9AM (ET) on Monday, June 12 and 5PM (ET) on Friday, June 16. Please note the window for submissions is just one week. Letters submitted outside of this window will be disqualifi...
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