Some resources for graduate school advising (for both mentors and mentees!):

• Quarterly student progress form (Word doc)
• Qualifying exam document (2008 edition)
• "Nature's guide for mentors" Nature, v447, 791-797 (June, 2007). (requires UW library access)
• Graduate school survival guide
• An on-line book: "Adviser, Teacher, Role Model, Friend"
• Tips on becoming a Successful Academic

Some BHI policies, and relevant external policies:

• BHI satisfactory progress document
• General exam policy document
• BHI NLM postdoctoral fellows coursework requirements
• HIPAA training: Institutional policies require all members of the UW Medicine workforce (including students and trainees) to be educated about privacy, confidentiality, and security of protected health information. All members of UW Medicine's workforce need to be trained by attending Medical Center General Orientation or completing the HIPAA Online Training
• Biomedical Research Integrity Training:  Biomedical Research Integrity Training is required of all NIH training grant funded trainees (thus, the requirement holds for both the NLM training grant and the RWJF training grant). Completing this training and documenting this training is a federal requirement for continuation of funding. For other students participation in the series is very strongly encouraged. To sign up for the course go to the BRI Series Web Site.
• Human Subjects Training. It is BHI policy that all students (MS, Ph.D, and postdocs) must take Human Subjects training (for all students beginning in 2007 or later). This training is required for most of our research grants, and is often required for Ph.D. research. Students should take "course 4"  (combining Social/Behavioral and Biomedical Research) of the on-line training course. See also the new grad school policy:
• Human Subject policy for the formation of a thesis or dissertation committee. The Graduate School has introduced a policy change requiring a form to be signed by the advisor and the student acknowledging that the student has been consulted on matters of human subject and animal protection PRIOR to forming a thesis or dissertation committee. This is required for all committees established in Autumn 2007 and thereafter. This "Use of Human and Animal Subjects" form needs to be signed regardless of whether the actual work involves human or animal subjects; it is only a confirmation that the student is aware of human and animal subject issues.