Find a Mentor

Mentors are important in everyone's career development, offering professional and personal guidance, role modeling, and socialization into a profession.  They are essential in helping shape the professional lives of physicians. Most medical students encounter mentors during inpatient clerkships, research, or through similar interests.

Most formal mentoring programs are conducted at individual medical schools, so contact your school's office of student affairs.

These links may offer insight into how to find mentors and get the most benefit from them.

• Mentoring in Medicine: Physician to Physician
  In this brief video, MMS physicians discuss what mentoring has meant to them, and the value they derive from mentoring other physicians.
  

• Physician Mentorship: Why It’s Important, and How to Find and Sustain Relationships
  A freelance health care writer offers thoughts on mentorship on NEJM Career Center.

• 5 Tips for Finding and Working With a Mentor
  The AAMC offers tips on identifying mentors and building mentor relationships.

• Diversity Medical Student Mentorship
  The American Academy of Dermatology offers a Diversity Mentorship Program for first- through fourth-year medical students from ethnically and socioeconomically diverse backgrounds who are interested in learning more about the specialty of dermatology.