Exploring the Impact Factor: Medical Students Mentoring High School Students and Cultivating Cultural Humility.

ABSTRACT: Purpose: Diversity at all levels of medical training remains relatively stagnant, despite efforts to address equity in medical schools. Early career-specific mentoring may address barriers to the pursuit of medical education for students underrepresented in medicine (URiM). By surveying a program that engages medical students as drivers of career-specific mentorship for URiM high school students, this study evaluates medical student mentors' experiences mentoring and seeks to develop a mentorship curriculum. Methods: The authors describe a medical student-led pipeline program, which connects medical students with URiM high school students. Medical student mentors participated in focus groups and gave written responses evaluating reasons for involvement, sociocultural attitude

SUBMITTER: Derck J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6071896 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature