How deliberate mentorship can help med students

Mentorship can help medical students hone their clinical skills and improve their patient interactions, but mentors can also guide students through tough times both in school and their personal lives. Stanford has implemented a medical school mentorship program that builds a community atmosphere to support their students. Stanford University Medical Center in 2010 launched the Stanford Committee for Professional Satisfaction and Support to help physicians balance the increasing demands of practice environments. The guiding principle of the committee is that the professional fulfillment of clinicians is inextricably linked to quality, safety and patient-centeredness. The medical school also recognized that it wasn ’t just physicians in practice who needed support, but the medical students needed support thorughout their rigorous training as well. That’s why they implemented theEducators-4-Care program, which pairs five to six medical students with a faculty member who serves as teacher, mentor and colleague for the duration of their time at the school of medicine.Supporting students throughout med school“It gives students a person to go to when they’re in stress because we really get to know the students well,” said Lars Osterberg, MD, associate professor of medicine at Stanford School of Medicine and director of the Educators-4-Care (E4C) program.“It’s a deliberate mentoring … which gives them a more personalized and dedicated mentorship,” he said. “Unli...
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