E-Mentoring

On October the 4th 2011, I went to Nottingham University to join a mentoring programme. This programme was a scheme in which the university paired up some students studying A level, with students who were currently studying medicine. The aim of this programme was to get current medicine students to mentor A level students in the attempt to guide the A level students in the path to study medicine.

The features of this programme included:

• Ability of mentor and mentee to email each other to ask questions, give advice and useful information about studying medicine - This allowed me to communicate with my mentor and find out useful information e.g. what events I should visit, any courses I should take etc... In my opinion, this was the most useful feature of the programme, as it allowed me to ask for important advice on anything I was not sure about, gain reassurance and also ask the mentor about their path into medicine etc...
• Another feature of this programme was, the website which the students were told about (https://www.brightjournals.org). This website was helpful as it provided resources of good quality information which I found to be useful. This information helped me, and possibly other students on the programme in areas such as work experience, different career choices within medicine, personal statement etc...

Overall I think that this e-mentoring programme helped me a lot through my AS levels, and therefore I have decided to stay on the programme for more help and support during my A2 Levels, I would also recommend this programme to anyone else who is also wanting to study medicine.