With the Early Career Mentoring, the Equal Opportunities Office of the MHH launched a new mentoring programme for female physicians at the beginning of their specialist training as well as female doctoral students of all subjects at the MHH. Since October 2022, the 2nd cycle of 14 qualified young female scientists have started the mentoring programme.

Goals of the Early Career Mentoring Programme:

• Promote committed young female scientists and scholars
• strengthen their competencies and potential for their professional careers, and to support them in
• their careers with the experience of successful female researchers
• Transfer of experience and knowledge in the mentoring relationship
• Establishment of an interdisciplinary network

The ECM aims at women who want to consider their professional career. The target group is women who want to pursue a career in science or who want to take on leadership responsibilities in research, teaching, clinical practice or science administration.

• Female physicians from the 2nd year of specialist training onwards
• Doctoral students (PhD) of all sciences at the Hannover Medical School
• early stage Postdocs 

The programme thrives on the diversity of the mentee group! Therefore, in Early Career Mentoring, female scientists and physicians with different professional backgrounds and experiences come together in one group.

The mentoring program consists of three areas:

• Group mentoring - the mentoring in the narrower sense
• various seminars and workshops for extracurricular qualification
• as well as the development of an interdisciplinary, supporting network, which also lasts beyond the mentoring program.

An opening and closing event will form the framework for this program.

Application Requirements:

• Female physicians in their 2nd year or more of residency training.
• Female doctoral candidates (PhDs) in all scientifically fields at Hanover Medical School [1]
• Willingness to actively participate in group mentoring (3 mentees / 1 mentor)
• Willingness to exchange experiences with colleagues
• Commitment and responsibility: reliable participation in the joint framework and career programme as well as in the evaluation and quality assurance process

Step 1: Send us your written application during the application period (mid June - mid August ) including the following documents:

• Cover Letter: Motivation & Expectations - Please describe what goals you have regarding your further career / career planning. How will mentoring support you in achieving your career goals? What would you personally like to achieve by participating in the mentoring program? Please briefly state what expectations you have regarding the cooperation with the mentor. If available, please provide information on your socio-political commitment and/or educational or caregiving responsibilities.
• Tabular curriculum vitae on previous education and professional career (in descending order)
•  Profile sheet here

Please submit all application documents in one PDF file

• via e-mail to earlycareer@mh-hannover.de

Step 2: After reviewing all applications, the selection of candidates will take place.

Step 3: If you are accepted into the program, matching will take place and we will inform you of your mentoring group.

[1] For questions concerning your field please contact us!