Mentoring in biostatistics: some suggestions for reform

Figures & data

Figure 1 Potential roles of a mentor along a career development path.

Table 1 Number of hits in literature search as of August 20, 2012

Search strategy	Database	Hits
(Mentoring OR mentorship OR mentor OR mentee) AND statistician	PubMed	1
	JSTOR	701
	WOS	11
(Mentoring OR mentorship OR mentor OR mentee) AND biostatistician	PubMed	0
	JSTOR	95
	WOS	0
(Mentoring OR mentorship OR mentor OR mentee) AND biostatistics	PubMed
	JSTOR	14
	WOS	661
(Mentoring OR mentorship OR mentor OR mentee) AND statistics	PubMed	721
	JSTOR	9518
	WOS	89
(Mentoring OR mentorship OR mentor OR mentee) AND (statistics or statistician)	PubMed	722
	JSTOR	9642
	WOS	96
(Mentoring OR mentorship OR mentor OR mentee) AND (biostatistics or biostatistician)	PubMed	14
	JSTOR	682
	WOS	10
(Mentoring OR mentorship OR mentor OR mentee) AND epidemiologist	PubMed	3
	JSTOR	287
	WOS	6
(Mentoring OR mentorship OR mentor OR mentee) AND epidemiology	PubMed	342
	JSTOR	1646
	WOS	41
(Mentoring OR mentorship OR mentor OR mentee) AND (epidemiology or epidemiologist)	PubMed	343
	JSTOR	1702
	WOS	43

Abbreviations: JSTOR, Journal Storage; WOS, Web of Science.