Mentorship Resources
Mentorship is a journey of growth, learning and mutual support. As pharmacists, mentors have the opportunity to inspire and guide unlicensed International Pharmacy Graduates (IPGs). For mentees, this is a chance to gain invaluable insights and skills from experienced professionals. Our goal is to support your mentorship experience by providing tools and strategies to navigate challenges, offer constructive feedback and foster a strong, effective relationship. Together, we can achieve professional growth and success through collaboration and shared wisdom.
Mentorship Guidelines and Discussion Guide for Project participants
It is expected that all project participants review the following two key resources:
- Mentorship Guidelines: These guidelines outline the principles, expectations, and best practices for mentors and mentees within the IPG Mentorship and Integration project.
- Mentorship Discussion Guide: This resource contains sample questions to facilitate discussions between mentees and mentors within the IPG Mentorship and Integration project.
Other Mentorship Resources:
- The WIN model (poster): A model that helps cultivate strong mentoring partnerships, conversations and ideas. (ACCES Employment)
- Facilitators and Barriers to Mentoring newcomers to Canada (webinar): A team of researchers from Sheridan College and the TRIEC Mentoring Partnership organized a webinar to share findings from the research study “Facilitators and Barriers to Mentoring Newcomers to Canada”. (ACCES Employment)
- Facilitators and Barriers to Mentoring Newcomers to Canada (study): Learn about the key findings by the college who conducted surveys to that look into the factors that contribute to being a mentor to newcomers in addition to the challenges and barriers involved. (Sheridan College)
- Inclusive Cross-Cultural Communication in the Workplace (webinar): This professional development webinar covers cross cultural communication challenges and how to be more inclusive in our culturally diverse workplaces. (ACCES Employment)
- Culture and Workplace Interaction (training module): This module presents strategies to help you successfully integrate, engage and manage performance in a culturally diverse workplace. (ACCES Employment)
- Performance Management (training module): This module focuses on the performance management stage of the employee life cycle. (ACCES Employment)
- Sample feedback language (one-pager): This resource helps you navigate feedback sessions using effective communication strategies. (ACCES Employment)
- Mentoring basics for mentors (one-pager): This simple one-pager presents basic skills, techniques and activities that a mentor can use when working with a mentee. (ACCES Employment)
- Supporting Your Mentee to Overcome Roadblocks (training module): This module focuses on some of the roadblocks mentees may face at different stages in their job search. (ACCES Employment)
- Having Uncomfortable Conversations 101 (conversation guide): Having difficult conversations can be uncomfortable, emotional, and even confrontational. But what if you could learn how to have difficult conversations constructively and productively? (Choosing Therapy)
- Having uncomfortable conversations remotely (video): If you’re putting off having a difficult conversation with one of your remote teammates, check out this step-by-step video. (Liane Davey)
- Guided Mentorship Program resources: A series of resources on mentors and mentees to support an effective mentorship relationship from the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists.
Additional Resources:
How to maintain work/life balance
- Resilience: A primer for Pharmacists (webinar): Strategies for managing stress and burnout. (Zubin Austin, UofT). (CPhA)
- Navigating Pharmacy Well-Being (podcast): Discussion about ways to prioritize mental health to maintain a positive mindset and how to balance empathy and professional boundaries when interacting with patients (CPhA)
- CPhA Resource Round-up – Mental Health (online resource): List of resources on mental health and well-being with a particular focus on Pharmacists (CPhA)
- Mental health first aid practice for pharmacists (online resource): This interview with Hannah Fish, PharmD, CPHQ, discusses NCPA's Mental Health First Aid program, which trains pharmacists and staff to recognize signs of mental health crises. (Pharmacy Times)
Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Accessibility
- Accessibility: Accessible Canada Act (online resource): The Accessible Canada Act is a federal law that aims to identify, remove and prevent barriers facing people with disabilities. (Government of Canada)
- Understanding the importance of intersectionality through an Anti-oppressive lens - Webinar (video) (Equitas)
- Anti- Racism Reflection tool (video): This Anti-racism Learning and Reflection Tool is designed to facilitate learning, self-reflection, and conversations with respect to anti-racism. (University of California)
Micro-aggression and micro-oppression
- Decolonizing toolkit (online resource): This toolkit was designed to spark conversation and growth personally, professionally, organizationally, or community wide on understanding and implementing decolonization. (VIDEA)
- Inclusion toolkit (online resource): This toolkit was developed to help you gain a better understanding of inclusion in a workplace setting. (VIDEA)
- Dismantle racism (online resource): Addressing racism today requires an understanding of how human rights are violated by racist ideas and discriminatory acts. (Equitas)
- Acknowledging indigenous people and territory (online resource): The goal of this guide is to encourage all academic staff association representatives and members to acknowledge the First Peoples on whose traditional territories we live and work. (Canadian Association of University Teachers)
- Indigenous cultural sensitivity training (training module): Indigenous Cultural Safety Anti-Racism Learning Programs is an Indigenous-led and developed initiative of PHSA Indigenous Health. (Sanyas)
