Become an AHEC Mentor or Mentee

Are you a health professional or senior student interested in mentoring students?

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Are you a student interested in being mentored by a health professional or senior student?

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AHEC Mentor Guidelines

Mentoring can take many forms as you know having accomplished health professions training. We all need mentors who are either professional, personal, educational, and all serve different functions. We hope that you can find a role with each mentee that serves to support your own career satisfaction while helping a new health professional find the future they are seeking.  Mentoring can therefore take on different flavors with each mentee. At any time, if you have questions, please contact us at ahec@hawaii.edu and we will work with you to maximize the mentoring relationship for both you and your mentee.

We outline ideas for mentoring guidelines and invite your feedback on other ideas as well. AHEC does not dictate the level of mentoring, but asks you to find your most comfortable degree of mentoring in each mentor-mentee pairing:

1. Cc jpalmer3@hawaii.edu on all communication with your mentee so that we can verify communication is on-going.

2. You can ask questions as well so that you can get a dialogue going and it’s not a one-sided conversation (“What got you interested in Medicine?” “What specialties are you interested in?” “What are your summer plans?”)

3. Sometimes your mentee will not reply back. If you don’t hear from them in a week, send them a check-in email. If you are ok with texting, then you can let them know that texting is an option as well (some of them don’t like to email, but love to text!). It’s up to you and what you are comfortable with. If you don’t hear from your mentee in over two months, let me know and I will send them a reminder that to be in the mentoring program, they have to communicate with you every month. If they are not able to maintain communication with you, then I will inform them that they cannot be a part of this mentoring program and I will pair you with another student.

4. Mentors guide students by helping them realize their goals, answering questions they have, sharing their own experiences, linking them to resources (ex: volunteering, shadowing, etc), and offering assistance when needed (ex: brainstorming or reviewing college application essays, resumes, etc). You are like a “big brother/big sister” to your mentee. You are their advocate and friend who checks in with them every month.

5. You are responsible for contacting your mentee once a month. I will be sending you email reminders mid-month, but feel free to email/text them at any time during the month.

6. We ask that you stay in touch with your mentee up to 1 year (typically they get all the advise they need much sooner than this).

Questions

Please contact ahec@hawaii.edu or call (808) 692-1060.