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Learning Community Student-Resident Physician Mentorship, Kyla Kosidowski, Sahar Elmenini, Jack Considine, Madison Graifman, Dhruvil Patel, Megan Seyerle, Elise Turke, Kathleen Young, Nicole White, Chelsea Yu, Latoya Sherman, Eric Ayers Md
Learning Community Student-Resident Physician Mentorship, Kyla Kosidowski, Sahar Elmenini, Jack Considine, Madison Graifman, Dhruvil Patel, Megan Seyerle, Elise Turke, Kathleen Young, Nicole White, Chelsea Yu, Latoya Sherman, Eric Ayers Md
Medical Student Research Symposium
Wayne State University School of Medicine (WSUSOM) in 2018 formed Learning Communities (LCs), that facilitate student engagement, comradery, and mentoring. These programs include medical student-premed, near-peer, and faculty/attending mentorships. There has been an identified gap in mentorship between near-peer and faculty/attending mentorship, and that is near-peer mentors at WSUSOM have yet to complete the residency process to guide other students through it. Moreover, faculty/attending mentors are more removed from residency and may not have relevant advice for students. As resident physicians are recent graduates, they are more likely to provide relevant insight about residency applications, academic challenges, and efficiency than …