What to look for in a Mentor? - Session II - Pre session reading

Choosing a mentor

Nature Article on the importance of a Mentor for a young science student:

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v447/n7146/full/447791a.html 

What students did in between session I and II

1. Meeting to discuss MBTI within teams and choose specialty for each student 
2. Meeting to choose possible Mentors 
3. Students wrote CVs. Group Leaders held group meetings where students gave each other feedback on CVs.

Facilitator's Guide for Session I - What do I want to be when I grow up

                     

First Session:“What do I want to be when I grow up”

Date: May 15^th 2014

Format: Lecture via Google Plus and Guided Imagery Exercise

Faculty: Basmaa Ali MD

Length: 90 Minutes

Objectives:

To make students aware of the role of subconscious and unconscious in their decision making in addition to conscious mind

Help them explore their own personality and choose specialty in congruence with who they are

Pre-Session Work:

All students were asked to fill in

MB Personality Test

Questionnaire about personal interests and responsibilities (A sample of questionnaire has been uploaded)

Synopsis and Feedback

Feedback Form

After the session Students were given a feedback form to get their views about session.

You can download it from This link , option is under --->File--->Download.

List of Medical Specialties

Here is a list of specialties. Also here is a link to the ABMS website that also lists all the specialties for which there are boards. 

http://www.abms.org/who_we_help/physicians/specialties.aspx

1. Medicine 
• Endocrinology 
• Pituitary 
• Thyroid
• Adrenal 
• Pancreas - Diabetes
• Gastroenterology 
• Inflammatory Bowel Disease and other gut diseases
• Hepatology 
• GUT Motility disorders
• Cardiology 
• Interventional 
• Non interventional
• Electrophysiology
• Heart Failure 
• Pulmonary 
• Critical Care
• Nephrology 
• Sleep medicine
• Oncology 
• Hematology 
• Infectious Disease 
• 
  
2. Surgery 
• Neurosurgery 
• Vascular surgery 
• Endocrine Surgery 
• Pituitary 
• Thyroid
• Adrenal
• Head and Neck Surgery 
• Oral surgery 
• ENT 
• Eye
• Plastic Surgery 
• Cardio-thoracic surgery 
• General Surgery 
• Orthopedic
• Spine
• Hand 
• Shoulder
• Knee 
3. Neurology 
• Neuroendocrine
4. Anesthesia
5. Radiology 
• Interventional 
• non Interventional 
6. Pain Medicine 
7. Palliative Medicine 
8. Emergency Medicine 
9. Psychiatry 
10. Pediatrics and Pediatric Specialties
11. Adolescent medicine
12. Geriatrics medicine 
13. Neonatology 
14. Fetal Medicine
15. OB & GYN
16. High Risk OB GYN 

First Session Slides and Live Streaming

Here you would be able to watch Mentoring Program First Session Live, All you have to do is to start your proxy connection , Better use  Free gate because it doesn't have ads like Hotspot shield and doesn't require installation.

Power Point Presentation

Career choices from Zerva