Mentor Evaluation: Training Assessment Tools

man_reading_speaking_medDo you want feedback about research mentor training at your site? The survey instruments on this site are examples of our tools to evaluate the effectiveness of research mentor training sessions. If you are interested in working with us to create customized evaluation tools to match your training, please contact evaluation@med.wisc.edu.

Mentoring Competency Assessment (MCA)

  • Contains a validated scale to assess skill gains across six mentoring competencies as well as other questions on mentoring relationships and practice.
  • You send the survey links to your participants, and the UW Madison ICTR team can send the aggregated MCA data back to you.
  • The first page of each survey includes information regarding confidentiality, data analysis and use.
  • The instrument was administered in a national mentor training randomized controlled trial.

View the article on the MCA’s validation in Academic Medicine.

MCA Survey

Based on your needs and interest, you can choose to send a one-time confidential survey to mentors and/or their mentees immediately following their participation in research mentor training, or ask mentors and mentees to complete the surveys before and after training (pre and post).

Using Our Evaluation Tools:

  • Contact evaluation@med.wisc.edu to work with our staff to create surveys suited to your training.
  • Once created, you send the survey links to your participants, and the UW Madison ICTR team can send the aggregated MCA data back to you.
  • The first page of each survey includes information regarding confidentiality, data analysis and use.