Academic careers

Invitation to tender for an evaluation of the Mentoring and Outreach Scheme

The Academy of Medical Sciences coordinates a Mentoring and Outreach Scheme to promote academic medicine to clinical trainees and to support clinical academics in achieving their potential.

We are looking for an individual or organisation, to design and deliver an independent evaluation of the Mentoring and Outreach Scheme.

Detailed information, including how to bid for this piece of work, can be found in the evaluation specification. Applications must be received no later than 5 August 2010.

The evaluation will provide a 'snaphot' of current mentoring activity and its impacts on mentors and mentees. The evaluator will also develop a framework for ongoing monitoring and evaluation of the scheme.

This 'light touch' evaluation process will run during autumn 2010 and will report in early December 2010.

Supporting clinical academic trainees
A dual clinical and research career (known as ‘academic medicine’) brings challenges, opportunities and rewards. Many individuals are still in clinical training when they embark on a research career and therefore must fulfil multiple, and often competing, lines for reporting and assessment. Coping with the demands of working within a highly specialised, competitive and fiercely intellectual culture, while also maintaining a work/life balance brings significant challenges.

Over the last 8 years the Academy has developed a portfolio of UK-wide activities to support clinical academic trainees. The central element of this scheme is a highly respected one-to-one mentoring programme.

For any additional information please contact:
Dr Nigel Eady (020 7969 5256, nigel.eady@acmedsci.ac.uk) or
Dr Suzanne Candy (020 7969 5226, suzanne.candy@acmedsci.ac.uk)


The Mentoring and Outreach Scheme is generously supported by the Department of Health and the National Institute for Health Research.