Becoming a More Effective Mentee

Many of you have formal and informal mentors. To maximize the value of your mentorship, review these resources, and mindfully improve your role as a mentee!

Keep an open mind for unexpected opportunities, embrace the excitement of change, and cultivate a team of mentors you can modify throughout your career.

For Career/Specialty Mentoring

What do you talk about? The agenda may include any number of things; however, the idea of having an agenda is important. These people are busy and are taking time to focus solely on you---so make use of this valuable gift! Some ideas might include:

· What you are learning from your clinical experiences---just debriefing!

· What you are thinking in terms of career direction

· Questions you might have about their specialty

· Questions you might have about the field of medicine

· Questions about how they maintain professionalism

· Questions about how they maintain some kind of balance in their lives

· Interviewing them about the development of their career

· Bringing in assessments from the Careers in Medicine website to discuss