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 Inclusion & Diversity 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 to the end of May .
- 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.
Please note that this iteration of the DMP will run primarily with hybrid events (though in-person attendance is encouraged whenever feasible). However, connections within your mentorship 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 at the link below! Please apply via the link below, or contact medicine.dmp@utoronto.ca.
DMP Mentee Application 2023-24
Learners, 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 below or contact medicine.dmp@utoronto.ca. If there is no match available in 2023-24, your information will be kept on file to reach out for a match in the following year.
DMP Mentor Application 2023-24
Contact
Any further questions about the Diversity Mentorship Program can be directed to medicine.dmp@utoronto.ca.
Resources for DMP medical student mentees
General Mentoring
- American Psychological Association Introduction to Mentoring: A Guide for Mentors and Mentees (webpage)
- Oregon Health and Science University - Tips for Mentees (webpage)
- U of T - Temerty Faculty of Medicine Mentorship Programs (webpage)
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University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus - Setting Boundaries in Mentoring Relationships (webpage)
Resources for DMP mentors
Mentoring in Medicine
- Association of American Medical Colleges - Feature: Mentoring Systems: Benefits and Challenges of Diverse Mentoring Partnerships (webpage)
- Journal of Graduate Medical Education - Love Letters: An Anthology of Constructive Relationship Advice Shared Between Junior Mentees and Their Mentors (journal article)
- University of Washington - The Mentoring Relationship: A Guide for Mentors and Mentees (document)
- Wiley Blackwell - Mentorship in Academic Medicine (book)
General Mentoring
- American Psychological Association Introduction to Mentoring: A Guide for Mentors and Mentees
- Harvard Medical School - Mentoring Models (journal articles)
- University of Manitoba, Centre for Aboriginal Health Education - The Kaaweechimoseaywat [Walking With One Another] Mentorship Program Guidebook (PDF document)
- 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
- Behavior Therapy - The development of a diversity mentoring program for faculty and trainees: A program at the Brown Clinical Psychology Training Consortium (journal article)
- Fernwood Publishing - Becoming an ally: Breaking the cycle of oppression in people (book)
- 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 for graduate mentorship
- McGraw Hill Publishing - Developing successful diversity mentoring programmes: An international casebook. (journal article)
- University of Michigan - How to Get the Mentoring You Want: A Guide for Graduate Students (document)
- University of Michigan - How to Mentor Graduate Students: A Guide for Faculty (document)
Resources on microaggressions
- Stanford Medicine - Microaggressions in medical training: Understanding, and addressing, the problem (webpage)
- Georgetown University School of Medicine - Stop, Talk, Roll (webpage)
- Duquesne University Center for Teaching Excellence - Pedagogy and Micro-Resistance: A Strategy for the College Classroom (webpage)
- University of California Santa Cruz - Tool: Interrupting Microaggressions (document)
Communication
- Forbes - 10 Steps To Effective Listening (webpage)
- Marketing for Owners - Speak Like A Pro: 11 Tips To Make You Sound More Professional (webpage)
- Mind Tools - Active Listening (webpage)
- The Muse - 27 Pre-Written Templates for Your Toughest Work Emails (webpage)
- Novoresume - 7 Tips to Improve Your Active Listening Skills (webpage)
- University of Maryland - The 6 Pillars of Brave Spaces (document)
- U of T Temerty Medicine - Virtual Meeting Best Practices (document)
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 (journal article)
- American Journal of Public Health - Race/Ethnicity, Socioeconomic Characteristics, Coethnic Social Ties, and Health: Evidence From the National Jewish Population Survey (journal article)
- Arch Dis Child - Muslim patients and health disparities in the UK and the US (journal article)
- Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) - Group on Diversity and Inclusion (webpage)
- Association of the Study of Medical Education (ASME) - ‘First in family’ experiences in a Canadian medical school: A critically reflexive study (journal article)
- Berkeley Hillel - Antisemitism Education (audio-visual media)
- BMC Medical Education - “What kind of support do I need to be successful as an ethnic minority medical student?” A qualitative study (journal article)
- CBC News: The National - Remembering the Komagata Maru (audio-visual media)
- Centre for Wise Practices in Indigenous Health (webpage)
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Health Equity for People with Disabilities (webpage)
- Historia Canada - Africville: The Black community bulldozed by the city of Halifax (audio-visual media)
- Institute for Social Policy and Understanding - Black Muslim Experiences (webpage)
- JAMA Network Open - Burnout and Perception of Medical School Learning Environments Among Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Medical Students (journal article)
- Journal of Research on Adolescence - Research on Adolescent Sexual Orientation: Development, Health Disparities, Stigma, and Resilience (journal article)
- Kaiser Family Foundation - Key Facts on Health and Health Care by Race and Ethnicity (webpage)
- 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 (journal article)
- 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 (journal article)
- 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 (journal article)
- Transgender Health - Experiences of Transgender and Gender Nonbinary Medical Students and Physicians (journal article)
- U of T News - 'We need to ensure a cultural shift': U of T's Onye Nnorom on why Canada needs more Black physicians (webpage)
- Vancouver Sun - Canadian Apartheid: Chinese Head Tax and racism's legacy (audio-visual media)
- Yaqeen Institute - What is Islamophobia | Animation (audio-visual media)