Your Role As a Mentor

As a mentor with SRPC, medical students will connect with you through SRPC office staff. Once you are connected, there will be flexibility in how you set up your mentor-mentee relationships, which can be tailored on an individual basis. This may include answering a few quick questions, setting up a longitudinal mentorship plan, or organizing shadowing experiences (public health guidelines permitting).

Expectations in your role as a mentor may include:

• Sharing experiences of rural practice with mentees for the purpose of career exploration and guidance

• Being honest and open regarding the rewards/challenges to rural medicine

• Forming a plan and setting expectations with your mentee regarding frequency of meetings and meeting platform to be used

• Sharing appropriate resources

• Recognizing that advice given, while extremely valuable, does not substitute for MD program-specific mentorship and supports