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Uk College Of Medicine African-American Medical Students' Experience With Faculty Mentoring, Ashlee-Nicole C. Hamilton

Theses and Dissertations--Educational Policy Studies and Evaluation

This research study explored the faculty mentoring experiences of African-American medical students at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine (UK COM). The purpose of the research is to determine benefits and challenges expressed by the African-American students so that UK COM can use the student voices to improve faculty mentoring for this student population. The following broad questions guided the research: 1) What are UK College of Medicine African-American medical students’ experiences with faculty mentoring? 2) What are UK College of Medicine African-American medical students’ experience with faculty mentoring on a satellite regional campus? Specifically, the investigation seeks to …