Emergency Medicine: Seeking Mentorship Volunteers
Calling all mentors!
After getting feedback from faculty and residents, we will be making a few changes to the buddy mentorship program. First, this year, residents were allowed to “opt in” to the program, instead of assuming all residents would want to participate. We hope that this improves engagement, by ensuring only the residents who truly value this experience will participate. This means the groups are a bit smaller (six or seven residents each), and we had to move residents around a bit (though we tried to keep it as consistent as possible).
Second, we have set dates for buddy group mentorship activities in advance. This year, the dates are Aug 23 (late afternoon/evening), Nov 1 (afternoon), March 21 (late afternoon/evening), and May 23 (late afternoon/evening). We hope that having the dates reserved in advance will further improve attendance.
To that end, we are asking any faculty interested in participating as a buddy group mentor, whether or not you have done this in the past, to contact Aikta Verma at aikta.verma@sunnybrook.ca. However, we ask that you only volunteer if you anticipate being able to attend at least half (2) of the dates/times listed.
If you are interested, please email Aikta by June 15th, 2017
Thanks so much for your engagement with the program.
Cheers
Aikta and Nazanin
