Mentoring

Mentoring of students takes place through the combined efforts of the Senior Associate Deans for Education and Student Affairs and the Master Scholars Program described above. The goal of the mentoring process is to provide students with a network of resources in order to facilitate intellectual, professional, and personal development. The deans offer a large number and variety of resources and programs, including formal introductions to the clinical departments and the selection of a career. In the Master Scholars Program, mentoring may occur in a variety of ways, e.g., helping students to identify projects for independent study and summer research, providing curriculum and career guidance, discussing ethical/political/legal issues of importance to medicine and to society, and fostering collegiality.