title: Mentors without Borders.
abstract: Mentors without Borders is a proposed international mentoring network that allows trainee geneticists to identify mentors from a list of volunteers who are not at one's own institution. It is an experiment, a matchmaker between a junior and a senior professional. These mentors do not replace the mentors at the home institution but allow the mentee, if desired, to identify mentors outside of their own institution. We envision that different ways of communicating and/or different mentor-mentee relationships may prove beneficial to the trainee and the mentor.
authors.affiliation: Medical Genetics Branch National Human Genome Research Institute National Institutes of Health Bethesda Maryland 20814.
authors.forename: Maximilian
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Muenke