Mentorship is one of the most crucial ways to support and retain URM students throughout their educational and professional journeys. Mentors and students are mutually interdependent. Students need professional “parents, ” and professionals gain intrinsic motivation from “intellectual children.”
In the 1:1 Mentorship program, VR and iHUMAN alumni are matched with a mentor who will provide them with structured educational and career planning support over a 9 – 12month period. Our Mentors are recruited from the WPMG Inspired Allied Mentors.
Our very first cohort started in the fall of 2021. More information about the 2021-2022 cohort and future cohorts will be available in the near future.
The Peer Mentorship program is growing and developing at this time. Opportunities to join the peer mentorship program will come soon.
For more information regarding the Peer Mentorship program please click here.
The goal of the IAM campaign is to organize racial justice-champions from Washington Permanente Medical Group to recruit and develop the next generation of historically underrepresented minoritized (URM) healthcare leaders by creating a state-wide, multidisciplinary network of racial justice-oriented clinician mentors through engaging, training and coaching clinicians
Over a three-month period physician-assistants, midwives, and physicians met in small groups to study prespecified materials on racism and mentoring. By engaging with curriculum, discussing content, and reviewing supplemental materials clinicians were prepared to participate in immediate opportunities to speak before, and/or mentor URM pre-health professional school mentees.
To create a supportive mentoring structure at KP, three Kaiser Permanente physicians studied community organizing for 10 weeks through the Wisconsin Leadership Development Academy. As a result, these leaders designed the Campaign for Inspired Allied Mentors (IAM), to recruit and coach 65 clinicians by August 31, 2021.
By September 30, 2021, the campaign succeeded in retaining 66 clinicians who participated in varying degrees of learning sessions. Clinicians were organized into 14 teams and met 6 times over a period of three months. The IAM campaign expects to train one cohort of clinicians per year and to continue recruiting program alumni to engage in mentorship opportunities.
HCCP students who have completed at least steps 1 and 2 of HCCP programs are matched with available IAM mentors for 1:1 mentorship. Matching prioritizes specialty, interests, location, and other impactful and important variables.