Field docent
A field docent or initiate supervisor was a joined Trill who served as a guide and evaluator for prospective Trill hosts for a symbiont.

Field docents reported to the Symbiosis Commission and made recommendations regarding their assigned initiates. A negative evaluation from a field docent almost always meant an initiate was removed from the program, their hopes of becoming joined ended. Field docents were given guidelines to follow which clearly laid out the responsibilities. 

Jobel was the person who supervised Lela when she was an initiate. ()

 served as field docent to 57 initiates over a span of two hundred years, and had gained a reputation for being particularly hard on them. 

Curzon Dax served as field docent to Jadzia Dax prior to her joining in the 2360s. After a two-week period, he recommended that Jadzia be terminated from the program. 

Jadzia herself later served as Arjin's field docent in 2370. Jadzia was determined not to be as hard on him as Curzon had been on her, but did push him. Arjin himself was unsettled at being Dax's initiate, through reputation, but Jadzia related to him and encouraged him to come into his own. ()

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