Mentee Guide
Mentors:
The “Mentee Guide” should be shared with your mentees and used to stimulate conversation with students interested in establishing a mentoring relationship.
Mentee Guidelines and Mentoring Relationship
What is a Mentee?
As the mentee you will be counseled, guided, and advised by an experienced primary care professional.
- Mentee must be a strong advocate for his or her own professional and personal development.
- Mentee takes an active, not a passive role, in shaping the relationship. 1
- Mentee manages the work of the relationship by planning and setting the meeting agenda, asking questions, listening, completing assigned tasks, and requesting feedback.2
What is the PCCAMP Mentoring Relationship?
- The relationship should be based on a common goal: to advance the student’s professional and personal growth in primary care.
- The PCCAMP is designed to give the mentee the tools necessary to build and sustain a strong relationship with their mentor and career advisor.
Types of relationships are as follows: 3
- Formal: Includes a written agreement, formal meeting times and involvement in outside activities.
- Informal: A relationship without a written agreement or formal meeting schedule.
- Virtual (distance, email): Includes emails, chats, phone calls, and other interactions without being physically in the same place.
- Just-in-Time: Includes interactions with students that occur during clinical rotations and community preceptor visits.
- Combination of two or more of the above: Mentor and mentee create a relationship that works for them.
Mentee Guide
Mentors:
The “Mentee Guide” should be shared with your mentees and used to stimulate conversation with students interested in establishing a mentoring relationship.
Mentee Guidelines and Mentoring Relationship
What is a Mentee?
As the mentee you will be counseled, guided, and advised by an experienced primary care professional.
- Mentee must be a strong advocate for his or her own professional and personal development.
- Mentee takes an active, not a passive role, in shaping the relationship. 1
- Mentee manages the work of the relationship by planning and setting the meeting agenda, asking questions, listening, completing assigned tasks, and requesting feedback.2
What is the PCCAMP Mentoring Relationship?
- The relationship should be based on a common goal: to advance the student’s professional and personal growth in primary care.
- The PCCAMP is designed to give the mentee the tools necessary to build and sustain a strong relationship with their mentor and career advisor.
Types of relationships are as follows: 3
- Formal: Includes a written agreement, formal meeting times and involvement in outside activities.
- Informal: A relationship without a written agreement or formal meeting schedule.
- Virtual (distance, email): Includes emails, chats, phone calls, and other interactions without being physically in the same place.
- Just-in-Time: Includes interactions with students that occur during clinical rotations and community preceptor visits.
- Combination of two or more of the above: Mentor and mentee create a relationship that works for them.