Diversity Mentorship Program

The MED Diversity Mentorship Program (DMP) aims to connect Temerty Faculty of Medicine undergraduate medical students or first year residents from minoritized groups to faculty mentors who are able to support and assist them in their educational and professional growth and development.

Groups who will be considered for this program include students who identify as Indigenous, Black, racialized, 2SLGBTQIA+, first in family to attend university, disabled, economically disadvantaged, and/or from a minoritized faith group, amongst other minoritized groups and communities. (Note that the term racialized refers to all non-white people, and is a term often preferred to 'people of colour' or 'racial minority' because it acknowledges the social process by which race is constructed.)

The main purpose of this program is to reduce/eliminate barriers to minoritized Temerty Medicine undergraduate medical students and first year residents exploring their full potential as learners. The Office of Learner Affairs is responsible for organizing the mentorship match between learner mentee and faculty mentor. Learner mentees who are matched with a mentor are then encouraged to take leadership in the relationship, to ensure that they are able to get the most value from their experience.

The program components include:

• To co-create a mentorship agreement which clearly states role, responsibilities, objectives and expectations of the mentorship relationship. Mentorship agreements last from September 2024 to the end of May 2025.
• To invest, at the very least, 3 hours of meeting time with mentee over the academic year. This may be done in a variety of agreed upon methods, including phone calls and video chats.
• Responding to requests for progress and updates from the Office of Learner Affairs in each term.
• To provide feedback for the purposes of evaluating the MED DMP program at the midpoint and closing of the program
• To join additional events/activities, such as welcome, mid-point and closing events.

For Learner Mentees

The first round of matching has been completed. If you would like to participate in the MED Diversity Mentorship Program this year, please complete the form below and the program coordinator will reach out to you.

Contact medicine.dmp@utoronto.ca for more information. 

DMP Mentee Application 2024-25

For Faculty Mentors

Any faculty physicians who are interested in equity, diversity, inclusion, Indigeneity and accessibility, and being an ally to minoritized learners in medicine are eligible to apply.

Please apply via the link below or contact medicine.dmp@utoronto.ca. If there is no match available in 2024-25, your information will be kept on file to reach out for a match in the following year.

DMP Mentor Application 2024-25

Contact

Any further questions about the Diversity Mentorship Program can be directed to medicine.dmp@utoronto.ca.