About Medic Mentor For Medical Students

Medic Mentor are the national mentoring organisation for practicing, training and aspiring doctors, dentists and vets. Medic Mentor offers the largest national leadership development programme for prospective students and the largest national educational scholarship programme for medical, dental and veterinary students. We are a dynamic, innovative and nationally impactful organisation, led by the Education Directorate committee comprised of practicing doctors, dentists and vets. Medic Mentor, as a community, are passionate about providing the highest quality education, committed to driving innovation in the field of medical education and provide tailor-made mentorship to our students, to raise their aspirations and improve their wellbeing, morale and success. Overall, our pursuit is to sculpt the next generation of game changers equipped with a ‘can do, shall do, will do’ approach, to provide the most effective and insightful leaders of tomorrow that the NHS needs.

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We TEACH Students HOW TO Become Good Doctors

What does Medic Mentor offer?

Medic Mentor provide support to students and professionals at every stage of their training. For aspiring students, we offer insight conferences and provide the necessary detail on how to make a successful application; we provide a national leadership training programme; we collaborate with schools to setup Medic Mentor societies to unite students’ passionate about professional healthcare careers; we offer a residential summer school for personal statement mentoring and interview coaching; we provide study guides and educational resources as medical wider reading and to prepare aspiring students for their interviews; we offer the national awards programme to encourage and acknowledge success; and we offer unlimited access to highly successful professional mentors.

For medical, dental and veterinary students, we provide the largest scholarship programme in the UK; training and coaching on essential academic skills including leadership and teaching; opportunity to contribute to educational projects; participation in our wealth of events for aspiring students; wellbeing and pastoral support; and unlimited access to professional mentors.

For qualified doctors, dentists and vets, we offer national leadership positions into the Education Directorate, as well as the opportunity to progress to our senior leadership positions and take a full-time role as educational or research fellows, if desired.

Core organisational values

Caring: nurturing the next generation through mentoring
Empowering: the next generation to become the leaders of tomorrow for the NHS
Excellence: to go above and beyond in all we do
Improving: a shared drive and commitment to learn
Unity: Working together, embracing diversity and valuing one another’s unique qualities and skills
Innovation: turning problems into solutions to make positive change happen.

Key Principles-principles that guide Medic Mentor

Everyone has the right to consider a career in medicine, dentistry or veterinary medicine
With the right attitude and mindset, any student can pursue a career in medicine, dentistry or veterinary medicine, and we will provide the support to enable this
We appreciate that we all have unique qualities and attributes, which are enhanced when we work together as a team
We are committed to providing excellent education and teaching from higher education, through to graduation from medical school and beyond
We upskill and nurture aspiring students, medical/dental/veterinary university students and medics/dentists and vets through mentoring
We uphold the principle of ‘One Health’, realising we are better together with medics, dentists and vets in partnership.

Our aspiration

To cultivate the next generation of game-changers, who have the skillset and experiences to tackle the issues faced by the NHS

COVID-19 Innovation Project

The COVID-19 Inovation Project took place earlier this year, the video conference is avalible to watch HERE

MEDICAL STUDENT SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAMME

Medic Mentor runs a unique scholarship programme to financially, pastorally and academically support exception medical students become future NHW leaders.

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MEDICAL STUDENT LEADERSHIP PROGRAMME

Medic Mentor run a funded national medical leadership programme to provide medical students with an opportunity to learn and develop leadership skills.

MEDICAL STUDENT AWARDS PROGRAMME

Medic Mentor run a national medical awards programme, to help medical student strive for excellence by providing CV structure and guidance.

ACADEMIC FOUNDATION PROGRAMME (AFP) PREPARATION

We provide all of our scholarship students with free personalised mentoring throughout the Academic Foundation Programme Application. We have had unbeatable success rates over the past 5 years.

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