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. 2024 Dec 17;57(3):177–184. doi: 10.22454/FamMed.2024.592893

Table 2. Underrepresented in Medicine Mentorship Program Timeline.

Planning year

September 2019–July 2020

• STFM creates URM initiative.

• URM-MP leader appointed.

• MWG appointed.

• URM Oversight Committee meets.

• MWG completes literature review and plans URM-MP.

Mentorship years

Year 1: August 2020–August 2021

Year 2: August 2021–August 2022

Year 3: August 2022–August 2023

• Mentees-mentors recruited.

• Mentor-mentee pairs created.

• Mentee preassessment completed.

• MWG presents mentor-mentee orientation via Zoom.a

• MWG presents mentor training seminars via Zoom.b

• Mentor-mentee pairs meet monthly.

• Mentor and mentee check-ins twice per year.c

• URM-MP closing meeting.

• Mentee postassessment.

aMentor-mentee orientations were added at the suggestion of year 1 participants starting in year 2.

bFrom year 3 onward, mentor training seminar 1 has remained live; however trainings 2 and 3 were recorded versions offered asynchronously as webinars.

cIn year 2, the MWG started doing combined mentor-mentee check-ins at the suggestion of program participants.

Note: Each year, two optional presentations not listed in this table were offered to mentees and mentors via separate Zoom webinars (ie, how to get published and how to advance in your career).

Abbreviations: STFM, Society of Teachers of Family Medicine; URM, underrepresented in medicine; URM-MP, Underrepresented in Medicine Mentorship Program; MWG, mentorship work group