Diversity Mentorship Program
The Diversity Mentorship Program (DMP) aims to connect U of T 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.)
Even if you are unsure if you are a member of one of these groups, please do not hesitate to sign up.
The main purpose of this program is to reduce/eliminate barriers to minoritized U of T undergraduate medical students and first year residents exploring their full potential as learners. The Temerty Faculty of Medicine 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:
- Attending a welcome and orientation event
- Signing a mentorship agreement which clearly states role, responsibilities, objectives and expectations of the mentorship relationship.
- Mentorship agreements last from September 2022 to May 2023.
- Investing at least 3 hours of meeting time with your mentor/mentee each term of 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 Inclusion and Diversity.
- Providing feedback for the purposes of evaluating the DMP program at the halfway point of the program and at the end of the match.
- Option to join additional events/activities, such as a mid-point and closing online event.
COVID-19 Safety Measures
Please note that this iteration of the DMP will run in a hybrid model of virtual and/or in-person components, and in accordance with the latest COVID-19 safety measures. This means that all events will be available to participate in via Zoom meeting , and mentoring can be done through phone calls, video chats, or other agreed upon forms of remote communication, or in-person meetings.
For Learner Mentees
The application for undergraduate medical students and first year residents to apply as mentees is now available!
DMP Mentee Application 2022-23
Please keep an eye out in your U of T email inboxes for the most up to date information.
For Faculty Mentors
Any faculty physicians who are interested in equity, diversity, inclusion and being an ally to minoritized learners in medicine are eligible to apply. Please apply via the link sent to your email, or contact medicine.dmp@utoronto.ca by Friday August 19, 2022. If we unsuccessfully match you in 2022-23, we will keep your information on file to contact you the following year for renewed interest.
Contact
Should you have any further questions about the Diversity Mentorship Program, please email medicine.dmp@utoronto.ca.
Resources for DMP Medical Student Mentees
General Mentoring
- American Psychological Association Introduction to Mentoring: A Guide for Mentors and Mentees
- Harvard Medical School - Mentoring Perspectives: Tips for Mentees (videos)
- U of T - Temerty Faculty of Medicine Mentorship Programs (web resources)
- Virginia Commonwealth University - Mentorship Manual for Medical Students: Guide to being a mentee (PDF document)
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University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus - Setting Boundaries in Mentoring Relationships (web resources)
Resources for DMP Mentors
Mentoring in Medicine
- Association of American Medical Colleges - Feature: Mentoring Systems: Benefits and Challenges of Diverse Mentoring Partnerships (web article)
- Harvard Medical School - Mentoring in Academic Medicine (journal articles)
- Journal of Graduate Medical Education - Love Letters: An Anthology of Constructive Relationship Advice Shared Between Junior Mentees and Their Mentors (journal article)
- Wiley Blackwell - Mentorship in Academic Medicine Resources (resource and template bank)
General Mentoring
- American Psychological Association Introduction to Mentoring: A Guide for Mentors and Mentees
- Harvard Medical School - Ask the Mentor: Tips for Mentors (web article)
- Harvard Medical School - Mentoring Models (journal articles)
- U of T Alumni - How To Be An Ideal Mentor(web article)
- U of T - Temerty Faculty of Medicine Mentorship Programs (web resources)
- University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus - Setting Boundaries in Mentoring Relationships (web resources)
Equity Topics
- Harvard Medical School - Mentoring Across Differences (journal articles)
- University Affairs - Lessons from the First Summit for Mentoring Indigenous Graduate Students (news article)
- University of California, San Francisco - Mentor Training Program Case Scenarios (case scenarios)
- U of T - Allyship and Inclusion at the Temerty Faculty of Medicine (web article)
Resources on Microaggressions
- Stanford Medicine - Microaggressions in medical training: Understanding, and addressing, the problem
- Georgetown University School of Medicine - Stop, Talk, Roll
- Duquesne University Center for Teaching Excellence - Pedagogy and Micro-Resistance: A Strategy for the College Classroom
- University of California Santa Cruz - Tool: Interrupting Microaggressions
Communication
- Virtual Meeting Best Practices
- Forbes - 10 Steps To Effective Listening (web article)
- Marketing for Owners - Speak Like A Pro: 11 Tips To Make You Sound More Professional (web article)
- The Muse - 27 Pre-Written Templates for Your Toughest Work Emails (web article)
- Novoresume - 7 Tips to Improve Your Active Listening Skills
Equity in Healthcare and Medical Education
- Academic Medicine - “Being on Both Sides”: Canadian Medical Students’ Experiences With Disability, the Hidden Curriculum, and Professional Identity Construction (PDF document)
- American Journal of Public Health - Race/Ethnicity, Socioeconomic Characteristics, Coethnic Social Ties, and Health: Evidence From the National Jewish Population Survey (PDF document)
- Arch Dis Child - Muslim patients and health disparities in the UK and the US (PDF document)
- Berkeley Hillel - Antisemitism Education (video)
- BMC Medical Education - “What kind of support do I need to be successful as an ethnic minority medical student?” A qualitative study (PDF document)
- CBC News: The National - Remembering the Komagata Maru (video)
- Centre for Wise Practices in Indigenous Health (reports)
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Health Equity for People with Disabilities (web resources)
- Historia Canada - Africville: The Black community bulldozed by the city of Halifax (video)
- Institute for Social Policy and Understanding - Black Muslim Experiences (web resources)
- JAMA Network Open - Burnout and Perception of Medical School Learning Environments Among Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Medical Students (PDF document)
- Journal of Research on Adolescence - Research on Adolescent Sexual Orientation: Development, Health Disparities, Stigma, and Resilience (PDF document)
- Kaiser Family Foundation - Key Facts on Health and Health Care by Race and Ethnicity (web resources)
- Rai, Nanky - Uprooting Medical Violence: Building an Integrated Anti-Oppression Framework for Primary Health Care (journal article)
- Rapid Response Service - Barriers to accessing health care among
transgender individuals (PDF document) - Student BMJ - Resisting zulum: Tej Pal Singh is a Sikh medical student. He describes the impact of his faith on his experience of medical school (PDF document)
- Sunshine Behavioral Health - Mental Health Issues Facing the Black Community (webpage)
- The New England Journal of Medicine - Persons of Nonbinary Gender — Awareness, Visibility, and Health Disparities (PDF document)
- Transgender Health - Experiences of Transgender and Gender Nonbinary Medical Students and Physicians (PDF document)
- U of T News - 'We need to ensure a cultural shift': U of T's Onye Nnorom on why Canada needs more Black physicians (web article)
- Vancouver Sun - Canadian Apartheid: Chinese Head Tax and racism's legacy (video)
- Yaqeen Institute - What is Islamophobia | Animation (video)