TRIANGLE will bring together groups of mentors and mentees in pods to discuss specific topics via a case-based, open dialogue approach.

The mentoring pods will be run by a multidisciplinary team of outstanding mentors as program leaders and members of the TRIANGLE Executive, Curriculum, and Selection Committees. Mentoring will be provided by these leaders, as well as through peer-to-peer mentoring within pods. There are many advantages of mentoring pods. Participants:

• gain access to new networks of peers and colleagues
• feel greater connectivity with their colleagues
• display reduced feelings of isolation
• feel increased confidence and commitment
• undergo accelerated career progression and knowledge acquisition
• develop an improved understanding (and demystification) of academic culture

For mentors, pods better enable them to share knowledge and engender a diversity of opinion, expertise and relationship building that can better serve the mentees throughout their training.