Are you interested in mentoring aspiring medical students?
The Social Mobility Foundation (www.socialmobility.org.uk) aims to support high-achieving students from low-income backgrounds into the top professions, including the medical profession. Each of the students involved are predicted at least ABB, have at least 5 A grades at GCSE and are in receipt of Educational Maintenance Allowance, meaning their combined household income is less than £32,400, often significantly so. In any one year, 70% of students are from ethnic minority backgrounds and, in the last three years, 53% have gone on to Russell Group universities.
The Foundation is currently seeking medical students or junior doctors to mentor sixth-form students interested in Medicine, which was by far the most popular category for them last year. The mentoring takes place predominately online via a secure site, although mentors and mentees will get to meet at the start and end of the relationship, which will last one year from late January. The time commitment is no more than 15-30 min each week.
More details can be found on this poster (pdf).
If you are interested in participating in this programme, please contact Jade Broughton: 0207 953 4007 jade.broughton@socialmobility.org.uk