Undergraduate students Interested in a career in rural healthcare? Join ReMBC’s rural pre-health mentorship program and be mentored by students in the health professions programs of your choice.
Why join this program?
Get advice about:
- What kind of healthcare career is best for you
- Leveraging your passion for rural
- Rural career pathways
- Academic and professional advice
- Applying to programs
- Student life
- Succeeding in undergrad
- Anything else you can think of
Who can benefit from this program?
- Students interested in applying to health professions programs:
- For example: PharmD, dentistry, medicine, nursing, graduate school, etc.
- Mentors in your desired program can support you through the application process and provide insight into what the program is really like.
- They can also help you decide which healthcare career is right for you.
- First or second year college or university students from rural communities:
- Transitioning to post-secondary is tough, especially if you are going from a small town to a big university.
- We can connect you with a mentor who has been through it before and who can help you out!
How the program works
Who are the mentors?
- Students in a health professions program: e.g. current med students, nursing students, pharmacy students, graduate students, and much more.
- From a rural community, or who are planning on practicing in a rural community.
Mentoring options
You can choose to have one mentor in the program of your choice, or to have an interprofessional team of mentors from different programs of your choosing.
Matching
Fill out a questionnaire and the eMentoring staff will match you to a mentor, or team of mentors, with similar goals and interests.
Communication
Choose how and when to communicate with your mentor(s): you can exchange messages through our online platform, write emails, video chat, meet-up in person, even game online together – whatever suits you!
If you choose to have more than one mentor, you can decide whether to communicate with them as a group (like a group chat or team meeting), or if you’d rather communicate with each mentor one-on-one.
Communicate as often as you’d like, for as long as you’d like. We hope that you and your mentor become lifelong friends!
Not sure what to talk about?
We provide Conversation Sparkers that can prepare you for your discussions, help organize your thoughts, and help you think of questions to ask.
Mentee eligibility
- Connection to rural, either:
- Lived in a rural community.
- Interested in working in a rural community.
- Interested in a healthcare career.
- A current student at (or recent graduate from) a BC post-secondary institution, a former rural BC resident studying at (or recently graduated from) an out-of-province school, or a current post-secondary student at (or recent graduate from) any school who is looking to attend a BC health professions program or practice in a BC rural community.
- Not sure if you’re eligible? Ask us!