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MED Diversity Mentorship Program
The 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.
Sign-up
Planning for the 2025-26 cycle is underway. Complete the mentorship interest form to be notified when mentor and mentee applications are open.
Contact
Any further questions about the Diversity Mentorship Program can be directed to medicine.dmp@utoronto.ca.
MED DMP Online Resource Bank
Mentorship resources
Academic medicine
- Love Letters: An Anthology of Constructive Relationship Advice Shared Between Junior Mentees and Their Mentors (journal article)
- Mentorship in Academic Medicine (book)
- Mentorship in Medicine and Other Health Professions (journal article)
- Oregon Health and Science University - Mentoring (webpage)
Equity mentorship
- Intersectionality, Identities, and Mentoring: What Every Mentor Should Consider (document)
- Mentoring Systems: Benefits and Challenges of Diverse Mentoring Partnerships (webpage)
- The diversity promise: success in academic surgery and medicine through diversity, equity, and inclusion (book)
General mentoring
- Introduction to Mentoring: A Guide for Mentors and Mentees
- Setting Boundaries in Mentoring Relationships (document)
- University of Toronto Mentorship & Peer Programs Resource Library (webpage)
- University of Toronto Alumni – How to be an ideal mentor (webpage)
- Temerty Medicine Mentorship Resources (webpage)
Equity topics
- Allyship and Inclusion at the Temerty Faculty of Medicine (webpage)
- Becoming an ally: Breaking the cycle of oppression in people (book)
- EDI in a Global Context (webpage)
- Office of Inclusion & Diversity resources (webpage)
- Microaggressions and Allyship (webpage)
- The coin model of privilege and critical allyship: implications for health (journal article)
- Understanding the Effects of the Hidden Curriculum (webinar)
Communication
- Active listening: appreciate the difference between listening and hearing (document)
- How to respond when trauma is revealed (webpage)
- Learner mistreatment additional resources (webpage)
- Speak Like A Pro: 11 Tips To Make You Sound More Professional (webpage)
- Support guidance for friends, family and others (webpage)
- The Muse - 27 Pre-Written Templates for Your Toughest Work Emails (webpage)
- The 6 Pillars of Brave Spaces (document)