The mentorship is vis-à-vis an individual scholar.
I mentioned that I had two different scholars. One was early in his academic career. The other was already an accomplished pediatric oncologist. He was still in his early thirties. He was doing his research on public health in Canada. The other one was doing research on public health in West Africa.
Their needs were different. My role was to give both personal and professional advice. One of them—I won't say which—had a challenge with their thesis supervisor. We discussed how to deal with it. Another one had family issues. We discussed that. It really depended on the individual.