Mentorship

MSPA is looking to create and expand our mentorships programming and resources. We want to work with you so that over the years we can create and sustain a flowing and strong Queer Health Pipeline from the pre-medical student stage of training to starting residency! With your help and support, we can do it! Keep reading for our goals and ways to get involved!

Our goals are based on creating opportunities and spaces for people to come together and form the mentorship relationship. GOALS:

  • Create opportunities for mentorship relationships to form

  • Create opportunities to inspire the next generation

  • Create opportunities to develop as mentors and mentees.

We plan to split mentorship to target three different areas:

  • Into Medical School

  • Through Medical School

  • Into Residency

Plans and Ideas

Into Medical School:

  • Queering Medicine

    • Social Media Campaign to share the

      stories of students and LGBTQ+ healthcare

      professionals to diversify the

      definition of “professionalism”

  • Virtual sessions on applying to medical

    schools hosted by different schools and regions.

  • Hosting events with LGBTQ+ medical students

    and healthcare professionals to speak

    on their journey to inspire the next generation.

  • Hosting LGBTQ+ in Healthcare Career Fairs

  • Mentorship Office Hours

  • LGBTQ+ Guidebook to applying to medicine

Through Medical School and Into Residency

  • Queering Medicine

  • Mentorship Training

  • MSPA National Conference

  • Coordinating Chapter Programming

    • Sessions between students on navigating clinical spaces as a LGBTQ+ student at your respective schools.

  • Collaborate with Specialty specific organizations to host Applying while LGBTQ+.

  • Establish and maintain a list of MSPA medical student alumni who would be willing to serve as mentors to future MSPA students.

Get Involved

These are big and lofty goals! But together we can change the narrative and change the world! Each of us has benefitted from the support and guidance of someone ahead of us, this is a way for each of us to contribute to helping those behind us. Together we can make medicine and healthcare safer and better for LGBTQ+ trainees.

We are seeking LGBTQ+ medical students from various regions of the US to help us put together events, resource development, and form relationships with peer organizations to develop and solidify an LGBTQ+ healthcare pipeline.

Want to be involved? We are looking for people to help us develop resources and talk to pre-medical and medical students about being LGBTQ+ in medicine! Share with us your questions, knowledge, and experience to help us create and strengthen an LGBTQ+ medical pipeline!