Leadership and Mentorship Training
The Compass Mentor Program gives graduate and undergraduate health-professions students from around the Portland Metro region hands-on experience as leaders and professional-community members. You will gain valuable experience in building interpersonal relationships and practicing skills vital to your career goals.
Mentees are undergraduate or community college students who are early on in pursuing their path into healthcare.
Mentors are graduate students in any health profession education program who will offer leadership and guide discussion. Mentors will be recruited based on mentee’s desired matching qualities, such as professional program, first-generation experience, identity, or other sought-after factors that will help align your discussions and relationship.
Spring Semester-Long Mentor Program, January to May
- The goals of the program are:
- Serve rural and underserved populations entering the healthcare workforce,
- Help students with professional-identity formation,
- Develop tools for creating and leading community in interprofessional healthcare settings,
- Prevent burn-out of healthcare students and practitioners
How the Mentor Program Works
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Complete the Training: Mentors complete training in motivational interviewing and coaching as methods for meeting and working with students earlier in their healthcare career journeys.
Mentees complete training in how to navigate motivational interviewing to help define their goals and work toward what they want to accomplish in their professional careers.
- Each term there will be group events and conferences of all mentor participants on topics people are looking for more resources on; such as: job shadowing, financial aid, summer opportunities, and more.
- Meet 1-on-1: meet virtually or in person four times over the course of the year to use motivational interviewing to develop the mentor’s leadership and mentee’s action plan for advancement.
Important Dates
Important dates for Mentees
- January 10: Mentee application opens
- January 25: Mentee applications close
- February 1: Mentee training and hiring
Important dates for Mentors
- January 15: Mentor applications open
- January 29: Mentor applications close
- February 2: Mentor training and hiring
February-May: Meet with your mentors and mentees 4 times!
Mentee and Mentor applications will be posted on this site!
Questions? Contact Annie at ohwi-ahec@contact.pacificu.edu