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.