University of Wisconsin–Madison

Medical Education Project Mentor Guide 

The following guide is meant to help you in your mentorship of a student in a medical education scholarship project as part of their completion of the Path of Distinction in Medical Education (PoD Med Ed). It describes the general requirements of the medical education project as part of the Pod Med Ed and the responsibilities of the mentor. Please don’t hesitate to reach out with any questions.  

For more information about Project Proposals, visit our Medical Education Project Page.

Mentor Responsibilities 

Students and mentors will collaborate on project development, and mentors should approve the project proposal before it is submitted to the PoD Med Ed team for review and approval.  

Faculty mentors are responsible for:  

  • commenting on and approving the proposal. 
  • establishing shared expectations with their mentees for their project experience. 
  • ensuring students receive appropriate compliance training.  
  • adding students to their IRB application and any other relevant protocols.  
  • establishing regular meeting times with students. 
  • getting students access to any resources necessary to complete the project, e.g., departmental computers, data analysis software, etc. 
  • ensuring that students are in contact with any collaborators/stakeholders required to implement the project (e.g., access curricula, data and analysis, contact participants, etc.) and expectations are clearly stated and agreed upon. 
  • helping students identify an appropriate local, regional, or national meeting at which to present the outcomes of their project. 
  • helping students to finish and present their projects by the PoD MedEd application deadline (July 1st to appear on residency applications or March 1st of graduation year to award at graduation). 

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