Meet the Team
Our Projects
Doc-to-Doctor
The Doc-to-Doctor project is an initiative to provide clinical skills teaching and practice to first year medical students. This is run by Joe, and takes place for three hours every week. Sign-up is at the end of the semester 1/beginning of semester 2 - however if you're not on the current course and want access to the material please download the questions (pdf format) and teaching PowerPoints here:
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Mentoring
About the mentoring project
The mentoring project is a scheme that has been run by Medics’ Welfare for a number of years. It pairs students facing academic, and occasionally personal, difficulties with students in the years above, to support them. This is predominantly an academic scheme, whereby mentors provide small tutorials on particular areas of difficulty, but there is a more general role of a mentor to provide a basic level of advice and support if you are experiencing difficulties.
What are the aims?
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to provide personalized one-to-one teaching to students facing difficulties with the overall aim of increasing their understanding
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to provide students with a flexible opportunity to get involved with teaching and develop their teaching skills
What is expected of a mentee?
Mentees are expected to be engaged throughout teaching sessions and motivated to learn. You should receive a high standard of teaching, whereby your mentor listens to you and tailors teaching sessions according to your needs. If you find this is not the case, you can get in touch with us via the contact details below.
What is expected of a mentor?
Mentors are expected to provide regular, flexible teaching sessions on mutually agreed subjects that their mentees find difficult. We expect mentors to commit to around 1-2 hours of teaching each fortnight, but you may find that you need a bit of extra help around exam time and mentors are aware of this.
More information
Can I get involved?
Yes! First of all - try the links below - these will work at the beginning of the academic year when we are officially recruiting people onto the scheme as mentors and mentees.
I would like to be assigned a mentor.
I would like to become a mentor.
If you clicked on the link above and recieved the following message:
'The form "Medics' Welfare mentoring scheme" is no longer accepting responses.'
the 'official' sign-up period has closed. However, please still do get in touch with us via the email address below and we will try our best to sign you up to the scheme.