How the PBT Schedule Works: You’ll be assigned a mentee based off of the information in your profile, your shared goals, and your shared backgrounds. This information will help us create a Custom Roadmap for each mentee. Each week the mentee will have a topical goal. These goals are created from topics that are highly relevant to getting into and being successful in medical school. As the mentor you will help them navigate those topics, but you won’t be doing the work for them. The onus of the work is on the mentee. You should not expect to spend more then a few minutes a week helping your mentee – unless you want to! This light commitment requirement is so that you the mentor can still have all the time you need to complete your school work.

We aren’t going to force your mentees to go through these step in their Roadmap and we don’t expect you to force them either. If they want to throw the roadmap out the window on day 1 and just use the next 4 weeks to ask questions, that’s fine! However, we do think that they’ll get a lot from structuring their weeks a little. However we will have weekly tasks for them to complete. Past groups noted that some accountability helped them learn more. These tasks are all very simple and just require them to make a simple post about something you’re working on each week. As a mentor please feel free and try to respond to their posts on the forums.