Exploring the Impact Factor: Medical Students Mentoring High School Students and Cultivating Cultural Humility
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 th...
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Mary Ann Liebert
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| author | Jordan Derck Elizabeth Yates Molly Kuo Charles Hwang William Sturdavant Paula Ross Jonathon Finks Gurjit Sandhu Gurjit Sandhu |
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| description | 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 attitudes, and skills needed for mentoring. Thematic analysis was applied.
Results: Themes that emerged in this analysis include motivation to mentor, skills used to approach the mentoring relationship, and benefits to the mentor. Mentors felt their experiences had a high impact factor, and they employed dynamic discovery. It provided personal reward and a deeper understanding of disparities.
Conclusion: Bringing medical school mentors together for peer to peer idea sharing, creating communities of practice, will help these students develop effective mentorship skills. A curriculum based on appreciative inquiry of mentors' strengths will enrich idea sharing, fostering cultural humility and avoiding burnout. Medical students involved in this program believe they gained benefits, including improving their mentorship skills, expanding their cultural humility, increasing their comfort with caring for underserved populations, and improving their ability to recognize health disparities. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a51486a00c7845b4805acba1376c106b2024-01-10T04:00:18ZengMary Ann LiebertHealth Equity2473-12422018-03-0121152110.1089/HEQ.2017.0025Exploring the Impact Factor: Medical Students Mentoring High School Students and Cultivating Cultural HumilityJordan Derck0Elizabeth Yates1Molly Kuo2Charles Hwang3William Sturdavant4Paula Ross5Jonathon Finks6Gurjit Sandhu7Gurjit Sandhu8University of Michigan Medical SchoolUniversity of Michigan Medical SchoolUniversity of Michigan Medical SchoolUniversity of Michigan Medical SchoolUniversity of Michigan Medical SchoolUniversity of Michigan Medical SchoolDepartment of Surgery, University of MichiganDepartment of Surgery, University of MichiganDepartment of Learning Health Sciences, University of MichiganPurpose: 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 attitudes, and skills needed for mentoring. Thematic analysis was applied. Results: Themes that emerged in this analysis include motivation to mentor, skills used to approach the mentoring relationship, and benefits to the mentor. Mentors felt their experiences had a high impact factor, and they employed dynamic discovery. It provided personal reward and a deeper understanding of disparities. Conclusion: Bringing medical school mentors together for peer to peer idea sharing, creating communities of practice, will help these students develop effective mentorship skills. A curriculum based on appreciative inquiry of mentors' strengths will enrich idea sharing, fostering cultural humility and avoiding burnout. Medical students involved in this program believe they gained benefits, including improving their mentorship skills, expanding their cultural humility, increasing their comfort with caring for underserved populations, and improving their ability to recognize health disparities.https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/HEQ.2017.0025cultural humilityhealthcare disparitieshealthcare provider diversitymedical educationmentorshipunderrepresented in medicine |
| spellingShingle | Jordan Derck Elizabeth Yates Molly Kuo Charles Hwang William Sturdavant Paula Ross Jonathon Finks Gurjit Sandhu Gurjit Sandhu Exploring the Impact Factor: Medical Students Mentoring High School Students and Cultivating Cultural Humility Health Equity cultural humility healthcare disparities healthcare provider diversity medical education mentorship underrepresented in medicine |
| title | Exploring the Impact Factor: Medical Students Mentoring High School Students and Cultivating Cultural Humility |
| title_full | Exploring the Impact Factor: Medical Students Mentoring High School Students and Cultivating Cultural Humility |
| title_fullStr | Exploring the Impact Factor: Medical Students Mentoring High School Students and Cultivating Cultural Humility |
| title_full_unstemmed | Exploring the Impact Factor: Medical Students Mentoring High School Students and Cultivating Cultural Humility |
| title_short | Exploring the Impact Factor: Medical Students Mentoring High School Students and Cultivating Cultural Humility |
| title_sort | exploring the impact factor medical students mentoring high school students and cultivating cultural humility |
| topic | cultural humility healthcare disparities healthcare provider diversity medical education mentorship underrepresented in medicine |
| url | https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/HEQ.2017.0025 |
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