UC Med Mentors is led by Dr. Charles Cavallo, and was founded in 2001 by Dr. Wan Lim as an opportunity for UC medical students, from all four classes, to reach out to the youth of Cincinnati while they are undergoing their training to be physicians. The program serves as a cultural exchange for the medical students, and provides opportunities for them to gain insight into the lives of children growing up in adverse conditions. The mentoring relationship exposes the mentees to new and different experiences, and provides positive reinforcement and encouragement. The medical students take a pre and post mentoring survey to measure improvement in cultural competency. This experience serves to make them more well rounded and compassionate physicians.
The medical students are recruited almost exclusively, but not necessarily from the first and second year classes in order to provide a suitable length of time to form the one-on-one mentor-mentee relationship, and to provide the continuity needed to have a significant impact on the mentees. The mentees are from grades K-12 from the Cincinnati Public School system. The emphasis is on reaching out to the younger students in elementary and middle schools.
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