Engaged Opportunity Grants
Program for Individualized Mentorship Education Solutions (PrIMES)
Supporting a targeted mentorship program that’s closing the medical education diversity gap
Increasing ethnic and racial diversity of medical schools is paramount for rectifying health care disparities. To address this issue, this team created the Program for Individualized Mentorship Education Solutions (PrIMES), a program that pairs pre-medical undergraduate mentees from underrepresented backgrounds with current medical student mentors.
Together, each pair progresses through the comprehensive PrIMES curriculum, which aims to maximize mentee readiness for medical school application and matriculation. This grant supports the PrIMES leadership team as they analyze pilot data, modify the curriculum, design a data analytics platform, create a flexible virtual mentoring network, present and publish results and facilitate the second round of mentoring relationships.
Topics: Access, Equity and Justice; Health, Nutrition and Medicine
The Team
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Benjamin Hartley, Department of Neurological Surgery
Weill Cornell Medicine
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Caitlin Hoffman, Department of Neurological Surgery
Weill Cornell Medicine
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Cristina Londono
Weill Cornell Medicine
- Community partner: Mentoring in Medicine
Engaged Opportunity Grants
Supporting a wide range of community-engaged learning projects, from student leadership programs and partnership building to events and conference travel. Open to all faculty and staff.