Commissioned Corps Pharmacy Mentoring Network (CCPMN)

Welcome to the Commissioned Corps Pharmacy Mentoring Network (CCPMN)!!

You, along with many of your fellow senior pharmacy officers, have expressed an interest to share the professional wisdom, knowledge, and experience you have gained over the years as a mentor to a more junior pharmacy officer (mentee). We believe your willingness to commit time and energy toward the development of another officer will benefit not only your mentee, but you and the Commissioned Corps as well.

It is crucial to the survival of the Commissioned Corps to have trained, competent, well informed pharmacy officers capable of moving into leadership positions and carrying out PHS's goals. As a mentor, you have the opportunity to help shape and develop tomorrow's public health leaders.

We believe the Commissioned Corps Pharmacy Mentoring Network is a mechanism by which such leadership can be developed. A one-on-one relationship with another officer gives you, the mentor, the chance to use your professional insight to help your mentee identify his/her professional strengths and weaknesses, set career goals and objectives, and develop a plan for achieving them.

The "CCPMN website" is a resource tool designed to help prepare and assist you in effectively participating in the mentoring relationship. It is a compilation of information from various sources that address topics and issues frequently asked about. It was not developed to be instructional in nature nor is it set in stone. Feel free to tailor it to suit your mentoring needs.

In addition to the information, the website contains a section called "Mentoring Tools". Here you will find aids to help you better organize and plan your mentoring sessions. There are career development tools that might be useful for someone who is uncertain about what their professional goals and objectives are. It also contains a checklist of topics that should be covered within the six month time frame of your relationship.

Finally, there is an evaluation form that is to be filled out and turned in by the mentor and mentee at the termination of the mentoring relationship. The information gathered will be useful in helping CCPMN better meet the needs of its officers.

Again, welcome aboard and thank you for your willingness to participate in a very worthwhile program.

Gratefully yours,