Mentoring

Mentoring is a relationship in which knowledge and skills are shared between members in a way in which everyone benefits. Often a more senior person is mentoring a junior person, but mentorship can happen between any two individuals. Mentoring will help Airmen and Guardians discover their strengths by achieving their full potential through a structured, trusting mentoring relationship.

Find a mentor and become a mentor! It’s easy to do both by registering in MyVector. In 2021, we completely redesigned the Mentoring platform in MyVector based on your feedback. New features include:

Ability to self-identify as someone seeking a mentor or someone who wants to be a mentor
Track the status of their mentoring requests
Updated Resources page
Enhanced messaging capability that allows users to send messages to mentors
Additional search filters:
ethnicity, race, disability, Exceptional Family Members Program (EFMP), MAJCOM, organizations, and ranks
Ability for mentees to share documents with mentor
Sister Service mentor/mentee enabled capability
CFM ability to assign mentors to mentees (Spring 2022)

Log into MyVector, check out the new capabilities, and find your mentor today at https://myvector.us.af.mil!

Innovations in Navy Medicine: Independent Duty Corpsman (IDC)

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Video by Thomas Ferguson, Thomas Webster

Dec. 29, 2022 | 3:05

The Independent Duty Corpsman (IDC) has long been a mainstay in the operational Navy. With a growing US Navy Fleet in the early 1900s, the Navy Medicine needed a more senior level of enlisted care to help it meet the medical needs of over 290 commission ships, when only 124 Navy Physicians were assigned to those ships. By 1923, IDCs were serving aboard ships with a crew of less than 125 men, small detachments of Marines and isolated shore stations. Today, IDCs are an exclusive community compromised of 1,400 men and women who serve in four recognized Navy Enlisted Codes (NECs): Submarine Force (8402), Fleet Marine Force (FMF) Recon (8403), Surface (8425) and Deep Sea Dive Technician (8494).

This Innovations in Navy Medicine video is part of an award winning series dedicated to showcasing the important innovations and hallmarks in Navy Medicine history. Stay tuned to DVIDS and Navy Medicine’s social media platforms for future releases.

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