Mentoring

The Pathway helps support students in finding Primary Care mentors in several capacities. Students will participate in mentoring groups, meet with their Pathway advisor for one-on-one meetings, and have the chance to develop mentoring relationships with Primary Care Resident Liaisons and more senior medical students in the pathway. 

Pathway students have access to primary-care-related interest groups and national resources (see Student Resources) for students pursuing primary care.

Mentoring Groups

Pathway students will participate in class-specific mentoring groups. Each group has a family medicine, general internal medicine, and pediatric attending Mentoring Group leader. In addition, it is strongly encouraged to find a one-on-one mentor. The Pathway has education on finding and developing mentor relationships and a database of faculty interested in serving as a one-on-one mentor.

Sessions include:

  1. Why medicine? Why primary care?    

  2. Reflection on balance 

  3. Populations, cultural considerations, patients in their community 

Sessions include:

  1. EQ 

  2. Reflection on challenges, patient encounters 

 

 

Sessions include:

  1. Learning from errors 

  2. Self care – strength and resilience  

  3. Choosing a field and resident panel about electives, sub-Is.   

  4. Story slam 

Sessions include:

  1. Moving healthcare forward 

  2. Doctors and social media 

  3. Assuming the role of the physician 

  4. Story Slam 

One-on-One Mentoring

All students will be connected with a Pathway Director as an Advisor. In addition, we highly recommend that all students connect with a faculty mentor. Mentors can help offer guidance about specialties and other primary care opportunities, such as quality and safety, the social determinants of health and care for vulnerable patient populations, business in medicine, technology in medicine, innovation in primary care, global health, medical education, and more.

As part of the Pathway, internal medicine, family medicine and pediatrics residents have applied to serve as Resident Liaisons to offer additional mentorship and guidance in future career goals, residency applications, and more. 

For current students, more information on mentoring can be found on Canvas.