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Mentoring and Peer Advice from Recent Trainees (MPART)

impart, v./im'part/: 1. To give a part or share of; to make another a partaker of; to bestow, give, communicate. 2. To communicate as knowledge or information; to make known, tell, relate. (OED.com, 2021)

About

What comes after Peer Advice from Senior Students: “PASS”? The lives of MD-PhD trainees after they have completed their dissertations, move back into the final stages of clinical training, apply for residencies or postdoctoral positions, and graduation are rich with lessons and experiences of immense value to their peers. In the whirlwind of graduation and moving on to the next phase of their training, the opportunities to impart their wisdom, sometimes quite unique (such as applying for residency in orthopaedic surgery, or two-body recruitment issues), are quite few and informal.

Program Goals

In June 2021, former PASS coordinators Alanna Kaplan and Lee Ying proposed to create a near-peer advising and mentoring organization called MPART: Mentoring and Peer Advice from Recent Trainees to make the availability of advice from recent graduates accessible to current students for questions and advice about life after MD-PhD Program training, just as PASS is available to them for questions and advice from peers within the program. By identifying specific recent alumni willing to share their time and stories, MPART will focus on providing peer mentoring to senior students during the final 1-1½ years of their MD-PhD training. MPART members will serve for a period up to 4 years (during their residency years).

Activities

MPART members will participate in alumni workshops or panels (via Zoom or in-person if close/in New Haven) in the fall (concurrent with the annual retreat) and/or in the spring (as students prepare for residency applications). Perhaps more importantly, MPART members recognize the value of 1:1 advising, particularly on unique clinical or research interests, lifestyle, and other individual requests.

MPart Mentors

  • Jon Klein

    Residency Program: UCSF

    Research/clinical interests: Infectious diseases

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  • Annsea Park

    Residency Program: Internal Medicine/PSTP (heme onc) at Stanford

    Research/clinical interests: RNA biology, immunobiology

    Other interests: Hiking, pilates, watching Netflix

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  • Cheryl Zogg, PhD, MSPH, MHS

    Residency Program: General Surgery, Duke University Medical Center

    Research/clinical interests: Health Services Research, Data Science, Quantitative Methods

    Other interests: Trauma and Surgical Critical Care

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  • Kingson Lin

    Residency Program: Radiation Oncology, Harvard Combined Radiation Oncology Program

    Research/clinical interests: Oncology, Chemistry

    Other interests: Drug Development

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  • Ronan Talty, MD, PhD

    Residency Program: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (Transitional Year); New York University (Dermatology)

    Research/clinical interests: Cancer immunology, lipid metabolism

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