Early Career Mentoring is a program aimed at female physicians at the beginning of their specialist training as well as female doctoral candidates from all MHH disciplines. The aim is to support young female scientists as early as possible in pursuing an academic career or taking on a management position in research, teaching, clinical practice or scientific administration. The basic idea, as with all mentoring, is that professional success is not only determined by qualifications and commitment, but above all by supporting networks. This is precisely where Early Career Mentoring comes in. Contact with an experienced mentor can serve as a role model for your own career path and strategic career decisions. In particular, the targeted development of a supportive network within the peer group proves to be particularly helpful for the further career path.

The ECM has an intersectional approach. Women encounter a variety of obstacles and structural barriers in their career and life paths - the "glass ceiling" is just one of them. As soon as diversity characteristics such as origin, gender identity, age, religion, disability, etc. are added, the disadvantage increases many times over. The intersectional perspective makes this disadvantage visible and enables us to create disadvantage compensation through the mentoring program.