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KEMU Mentoring
King Edward Medical University
Lahore Pakistan
How to find an elective?
Basmaa Ali MD
“Someone who teaches or gives help and advice to a less experienced and
often younger person”
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What do mentors do. . .
Listen and, when
appropriate, provide advice
Teach
Sponsor Endorse Promote
you
Counsel Protect Provide
correction
Give the inside scoop
Support and Affirm
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Multiple Mentoring Roles
Teacher/Tutor Provides scientific training. Orients mentee to organizational culture & professional skills; locates resources
Counselor/Coach/Advisor Gives career & professional guidance; feedback & support sounding board; problem-solver
Intervener Intercedes on behalf of the mentee; runs interference where needed
Sponsor Recommends and promotes career of mentee
Process mentors: guide you in academic and career development but may not have expertise in science of career
Content mentors: guide you in your scientific and conceptual development, but may not be good at process mentoring
DOM Task Force on Women’s Careers in Academic Medicine 19995
Finding the Right MentorIntegrity, Trustworthiness, Ethical, Honesty
Over-committed, under-committed, committed?
• Availability
Similar styles, ethics, values, interests
Knowledgeable & has good judgment
Influential
Good communicators
Openness
FUN!
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What kind of a mentor do you want?
Have a Committee of Mentors
• Process and Content
• Peers and Seniors
• In institution and Outside Institution
• Work-life balance and Home
• Gender, ethnicity, tract diversity
• Situational/ Project-based or long term
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Finding the Right Mentor
First Rule
Mentoring will not happen naturally in many situations – you have to actively seek and nurture
these relationships
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The best predictor of future
performance is………..
PAST PERFORMANCE
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2nd Rule
Mentoring Roles in KEMU Mentoring
Process Mentors: Drs. Ali, Ahmed, Qureshi and Hashmi
Content mentors: That each one of you will choose for yourself
Project Mentors: For your research project
Electives Mentor: You may chose to do your elective with someone who is none of above and choose to develop a long term relationship with him/her if you like him/her when you do your elective
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Where will Project mentors come from?
Each team will work on one
research project.
Each team member will come up with
one idea.
Students will vote to select a project for their
team from amongst the ideas team
members have come up with.
The mentor for the student
whose idea is picked then
becomes the project mentor if he or she agrees
Otherwise we will help you find a project mentor
But each of you needs a mentor
other than project mentor hence we asked you look for a
mentor for each one of you
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Answer the Question: Why Me?
• Why should a mentor take you on?
• How can I impress the mentor so that they want me on board?
– Be prepared
– Know mentor’s work
– Do your homework
– Know what you want and be adept at expressing it
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How to reach out to a possible mentor?
Write a CV
• Bring out your best qualities and achievement by what you have done not saying that you are the best things since sliced bread
• Be coherent
• Proper formatting
• No spelling mistakes
• Professionals have simple, well put together CVs.
• No colors or fancy fonts let your achievements speak for themselves
Write a paragraph about what you cando for your mentor
• Ideally you should further the work the mentor is doing or make it easy for her to do her work
• If not that you should communicate your interest in the work she is doing by
• working really hard
• Knowing all her work and discussing it intelligently when appropriate
• Being pleasant and enthusiastic
• You should not make her feel that allowing you to shadow her is a burden and a chore
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How to approach a mentor?
Depends on the mentor
How to write an email to a prospective
mentor?
How to set up a meeting if a mentor does not respond to
email?
Cover letter
CV
Ask for a meeting later if busy but be prepared
to advocate for your self at that time
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How to write an email?
• Find out all you can about the mentor
• Find out what his most recent work is about
• Header
• 4 lines
• Clear action item
• No spelling mistakes
• Grammar correct
• Make sure you show it to at least 2 other people before sending it in
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What will you do with your content mentor?
• Come up with a schedule to meet with them. Let’s say: Meet them every 2 months
• Send them reminder of meeting at least 2 weeks in advance.• Write a thank you note afterwards thanking them for their time.• Ask them for advise in electives. Where to go?• Which career path to follow? Private practice, academic or clinical
or research. • What books to read?• Learn about business of medicine? Billing, managers, office space
etc. • Set boundaries
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What will you do with your project mentor?
• Set up monthly meetings to go over data collection and progress
• Send them reminder of meeting at least 2 weeks in advance.
• Write a thank you note afterwards thanking them for their time.
• Ask for their advice in how to analyze data?
• Ask them to edit manuscripts once it is written
• Write to them when you are stuck?
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Why should I do an elective?
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Why do an elective?
To learn more
More skills
See if you like this specialty About a
different setting
GeographyNew
Mentors
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What to learn during an elective?
How to improve patient outcome?
• Accurate and timely diagnosis
• Accurate and timely management
• How to explain disease and its process to the patient?
• How can you influence patient behavior?
How to reduce risk for yourself and the
patient
• How to break bad news?
• How to take consent for procedures? Making sure you tell the patient and the family what are the risks and benefits?
• How to talk to patient's family?
Ethics of medicine
• How to recognize conflict of interest?
• How to be transparent with patients and colleagues?
Business of medicine
• How to make money?
• How to market yourself?
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How not to do things?
– How to improve patient outcome?• Accurate and timely diagnosis• Accurate and timely management• How to explain disease and its process to the patient?• How can you influence patient behavior?
– To reduce risk for yourself and the patient• How to break bad news?• How to take consent for procedures while making sure you tell the patient and
the family what are the risks and benefits?• How to talk to patient's family?
– Ethics of medicine• How to recognize conflict of interest?• How to be transparent with patients and colleagues?
– Business of medicine• How to make money?• How to market yourself?
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What to gauge during an elective?
Intellectual stimulation
Lifestyle Mechanics
of a specialty
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How to choose an elective?
Specialty
• Chosen
Mentor
• You know how to choose one
Setting
• EMS
• Emergency
• Outpatient
• Inpatient
• ICU
• Rehab
• Combination
• Other
• COMSATS
• SSE
Geography
• Developed
• Rural Urban Tertiary
• Developing
• Rural Urban Tertiary
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Setting
• What do you want to learn?
• Any setting different from Mayo will teach you things.
• HIV clinic
• Government of Punjab – Health Planning
• SSE at LUMS
• COMSATS
• Village clinic
• Shadow a professor
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Geography
• Where will you stay?
• Is it safe?
• Eating, bathing and etc
• Money
• Visas
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Schedule and deadlines for finding an elective
• Choose a Mentor and which setting you want to do the elective? Yes you can choose to do the elective with a mentor who is not in Lahore but remember your work will double since you will now have 2 relationships to maintain
• Write 2 paragraphs about why it would be good for the mentor to have you as a mentee ( cover letter) and have each other review and improve your letters in a meeting. Deadline June 30th
• Write Initial email as prescribed. Have your team review your email. or if your mentor does not do email, print out cover letter and CV and set up meeting with your mentor. Deadline June 30th
• Institutional Applications - if needed - Sep 15th 2014
• You should know where you are going for an elective in July 2015 by Dec 31st 2014.
• For folks who get turned down by their first choice, go to Round 2
• Round 2 deadline: Feb 28th 2014
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