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Rules of the Road

for Mentees

Mentoring is a key element of professional development. Our mentoring goal: pair a resident with a

faculty member to help guide your 36 months of training at our program. We want to foster a

relationship that provides a familiar, friendly face but still provides accountability. A place forinformation exchange, expectation setting, and work to get done. We expect that the upcoming

relationship will foster both your and your mentors career satisfaction, opportunity for advancement

through the program, and ultimately the ability to improve our specialty.

Any mentoring relationship requires guidelines to properly set expectations before effective interaction

can occur. The EM mentor will expect the mentee to:

1. Respect boundaries.a. Be on time for any meeting set.b. Answer voice messages, emails, pages, and text messages as soon as possible. Pages

should be returned within 30 minutes. Emails, voice messages need to be reviewed

within 24 hours. Other modes up to the two of you.

c. Expect attendings to be busy. Expect them to set parameters for frequency of contact,etc. They will not be able to meet daily.

d. Keep any mentoring discussion confidential, unless both parties agree to bring inanother participant(s).

2. Be courteous.a. Conversation manners: conversation is a two-way street. Once you pose a question,

allow the mentor to respond.

b. Actively listen every comment, email, text, etc. should be considered feedback.c. Expect your mentor to be measured with their responses, as they will attempt to be as

objective with their responses as possible. Cynicism, belittling, and other attempts to

prove superiority are inappropriate, as are gossip and degradation of other residents or

attendings.

d. Be available when you say you will be.3. Be open to constructive criticism.

a. Be honest, as it wont help if the mentor doesnt have the information they need to helpwith their response.

b. Try to resist the natural feeling of defensiveness that will occur when your mentor givesyou areas that can be improved. You have to have the willingness to take an honest

look at yourself/your program and be prepared as new insight develops.

4. Take ownership.a. At times, you will be expected to take the lead with asking questions and clearly

communicate with your mentor.

b. Read through the EM program requirements on the ACGME website.c. Read through the UF College of Medicine Jacksonvilles Resident Manual online.d. Read through the EM Residencys policies and curricular goals and objectives.

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We are excited to have this opportunity to work with you as you progress in your residency. We will ask

for your feedback throughout the mentoring process and welcome any comments that you have that

can make this experience more valuable.

Sincerely,

The Jax EM residency administration