MCubed:

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M-Cubed
Mentor
Mentee
Match

• Joe Huggins MSW MSCIS
• University of Colorado Denver and Health Sciences
  Center
• HighEdWebDev 2006

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Collective Intelligence

• Ecologists tell us that a tree planted in a
  clearing of an old forest will grow more
  successfully than one planted in an open field.
  The reason, it seems, is that the roots of the
  forest are able to follow the intricate pathways
  created by former trees and thus embed themselves
  more deeply Similarly, human beings thrive
  better when we grow in the presence of those who
  have gone before.
• Carr PL, Bickel J, Inuui TS

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Collective Intelligence

• Homers legend King Odysseus asks Mentor to see
  to his son while he is away
• ensure the mentees education
• provide a risk-free environment
• instill values of honesty and integrity and
• guarantee a future line of successors to the
  throne

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Mentoring

• An Essentially Human Process
• Built on a Relationship
• Of Trust
• Mutual Respect
• Intellectual Rigor

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Mentoring

• A Relationship
• But a Relationship that is
• Less Spontaneous
• More Proscribed
• More Goal Oriented

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The Problem Is

• Everyone Needs a Mentor
• Especially
• Students in the UCHSC School of Medicine
• 4 Year Scholarly Activity
• Junior Faculty
• Pipeline for
• Undergraduates
• High School Students

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Finding the Right Mentor

• UCHSC School of Medicine
• 2052 Faculty Members
• Another 750 Affiliate Faculty
• Hospitals
• Rural Preceptors
• 110 Students in Each Year/400 Total Students

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Finding the Right Mentor

• UCHSC Graduate School
• 340 Faculty Members
• 100 Students in Each Year/200 Total Students

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Clinical Science Program

• Four Programs
• PhD, MSCS, CRTP, Certificate
• Three Tracks
• Clinical Investigation
• Health Services Research
• Health Information Technology
• 120 Students

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M-Cubed

• Match.com Model
• Equal Participation by Mentor and Mentee
• Real Estate Model
• Use Publicly Available Data to Populate Mentor
  Profile
• Phone/E-mail Directories
• PubMed
• NIH CRISP

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Searchable Taxonomy

• PubMed
• E-Utilities
• Perl Script to send/retrieve mentor publications
• MESH Terms
• MEdical Subject Headings
• Create searchable taxonomy

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PubMed
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PubMed MESH Term
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Searchable Taxonomy

• CRISP
• Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific
  Projects
• Database Available
• Mine DB
• CRISP Thesaurus

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CRISP
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CRISP
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M-Cubed Taxonomies
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M-Cubed Taxonomies
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M-Cubed Taxonomies
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M-Cubed Taxonomies
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Mentor Detail
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Mentor Detail
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Searchable Taxonomy

• Mentor Generated Tags
• Categories from CDC, NLM
• Self Generated
• Courses
• Graduate School Committees
• Patents
• Scientific/Research Boards

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Concerns

• MESH CRISP Crosswalk
• More Public DBs
• Maintenance
• Scalability

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Future

• Collaboration
• Adding Schools w/in UCHSC
• Adding Schools w/in CU
• Adding High Schools