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Introducing CHIA's Mentorship Program on the AHIMA Community of Practice (CoP)
CHIA is pleased to announce that a California Mentorship CoP has been added to the AHIMA Web site. Click Here to visit.
Under the new methodology, AHIMA’s Communities of Practice (CoP) site will be used to bring CHIA mentees and mentors together in an open and fluid environment. Mentees and mentors will also have the option of communicating privately, through channels outside the California Mentorship CoP (such as phone or e-mail).
We encourage you to be a mentee or mentor* in CHIA’s revised Mentorship Program. It is designed to promote dialogue and professional relationships between mentors and mentees. Mentors will share their experiences, offer advice and encouragement, answer questions, and act as leaders and advisors to mentees. The CHIA Mentorship Program Guidelines address the program, Click Here to view.
With this newer Mentorship Program, mentees may now be a HIM student, new graduate or any other interested HIM professional. Furthermore, the CHIA Mentorship Program uses the AHIMA Web site to bring CHIA mentees and mentors together in this open and fluid environment.
In CHIA's new Mentorship Program:
• CHIA mentees have the opportunity to direct their questions to one or more experienced HIM professionals whose brief bios and areas of special interest are posted on the CoP
• The mentors function as a group to collaboratively respond to mentees' questions
• Mentees and mentors will also have the option of communicating privately, through channels outside the Geographic: California Mentorship CoP, e.g., phone or e-mail.
• Interested mentees and mentors are required to join the “Geographic: California Mentorship” CoP on the AHIMA CoP Web site.
Visit, download and print out the CHIA marketing flyer introducing this new Mentorship Program. You can post to a bulletin board or carry with you. Instructions for accessing the AHIMA CoP are also provided.
Mentees
The Mentorship Committee hopes that you will wish to become a CHIA mentee under this new methodology to bring the mentor and mentee together.
Under our revised Mentorship Program you will be able to continue a one-on-one relationship with a mentor. But in addition to that, you will have the opportunity to receive responses to your questions and concerns from many HIM professionals. The mentor group will function as a group to collaboratively respond to mentees' questions.
Other good news is that a mentee may now be a HIM student, new graduate, or any other interested HIM professional. In this new program, we are all mentees, wanting and needing to learn from others!
All you will have to do as an interested mentee is to join the Geographic: California Mentorship CoP on the AHIMA CoP Web site. Reference the AHIMA CoP Access section below.
Mentors
The CHIA BOD and the Mentorship Committee hope that you will become a CHIA mentor as we transition to a revised Mentorship Program and a new methodology for bringing CHIA mentors and mentees together. Under our revised Mentorship Program, mentees may now be a HIM student, new graduate, or any other interested HIM professional. Furthermore, under the new methodology, the CHIA Mentor Program uses AHIMA’s Communities of Practice (CoPs) site to bring CHIA mentees and mentors together in an open and fluid environment.
A CHIA Mentor Brief Bio Form has been posted to the AHIMA CoP: ''Geographic: California Mentorship'' under "Community Resources." Complete this form and send it to Mentorship@CaliforniaHIA.org .
Mentors will respond to mentee questions that are posted on the Community of Practice: Geographic: California Mentorship CoP. Questions may be directed to a specific mentor or to the mentors as a group. Each mentor will have listed several "Key Areas of Mentorship Interest" to assist the potential mentees in forming and directing questions.
To make this new Mentorship Program successful, please volunteer to be a CHIA mentor, if you are not one already. The mentor application has been posted to the AHIMA CoP under the Geographic: California Mentorship CoP on the AHIMA CoP Web site.
Once you have made a decision to be either a mentee or you are a mentor please visit the AHIMA CoP and sign on.
The AHIMA CoP access
The CoP is open to all AHIMA members. If you have never been on the AHIMA CoP, all you need is your AHIMA member ID number and your password. These are the log in instructions:
• Log on to the Internet address <http://www.AHIMAnet.org/CoP> or <https://cop.ahima.org/CoP>
• You will need to fill in your “AHIMA ID number“ and “Password” (usually your last name, unless you have reset it)
• Click on “log in”
• Click on “Join/Visit Communities” icon. State communities are located under “G” for “Geographic Communities,” e.g., CHIA is located under Geographic: California (there are many others posted that you may wish to visit)
• Click on letter “G” in the Index (note you can ‘view all’ and you can visit communities without ‘joining’)
• To join the CHIA Mentorship CoP, click on “Geographic: California Mentorship”
• Click on “box“ that is in the “Join” column on the “Geographic: California Mentorship” line
• Scroll down the page and click on the button “Join Communities”
• On next screen, click on “Personal Home”
• You are now back on your “Personal Home” page
• Scroll down the communities listed on “My Communities” where will find “Geographic: California Mentorship” (this will now appear on your “My Communities” page each time '‘log in’'
• Click on “Geographic: California Mentorship”
• Here you will find a wealth of information posted; scroll down to “Community Discussions” where you will find headers that read “See all Threads,'' “Create New Thread.” “Preferences” and “Help”
• Under the "HIM Body of Knowledge" posted in the Geographic: California Mentorship CoP are articles regarding an HIM Career
• If this is your first visit to “Community Discussions,” please click on “Help” and click on the “Print” icon. “Help” gives you details on how to participate in a CoP discussion, setting Community Discussions preferences, viewing a thread and reading messages, replying to a message, viewing a full thread, viewing all threads within the community, creating a new thread, subscribing to a thread, unsubscribing to a thread, changing the display to printer-friendly format and if having problems viewing threads subjects and titles
• There is even a CoP Search function on your “Personal Home” page
• You may “Log Out of CoP” at any time, there is an icon at the top of the page to click on
• The next time you “log in,” you’ll be able to immediately scroll down to the “My Communities,” select “Geographic: California Mentorship” CoP
Member profile
You’ll need to keep your AHIMA Member Profile up-to-date at http://imis.ahima.org/source/security/member-logon.cfm or if you are already ‘logged in,’ you can click on the “Update profile” icon while in the CoP.
If you haven’t updated your profile your demographic information could seriously be outdated and this is important for one-to-one contact on the CoP.
The CoP has a notification feature that allows you to receive a message at your regular e-mail address when information is added or you will receive a message in the CoP. Visit the “California: California Mentorship” CoP and set the “Notifications” on the top gold bar. You choose the timeframe for the CoP and the topics. To receive a notification about the new CoP messages, visit your inbox (mailbox icon) and click on "Preferences." Choose “yes” on the “new Internal Mail Notification” menu and click “Update.” Let the CoP tell you what is new.
*Mentor comes from Greek Mythology- Odysseus’s trusted counselor, in whose guise Athena became the guardian and teacher of Telemachus.
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