Comprehensive Medical Mentoring Program Information

Comprehensive Medical Mentoring Program (CMMP) was created to provide minority students, who may come from disadvantaged or underprivileged backgrounds, with experiences that foster successful matriculation into health-professional schools. This will ultimately increase diversity within the medical field, which is an additional goal of the organization. Using both minority health-professional students and residents in training to operate as mentors allows participants to learn more about medicine and ways to handle potential pitfalls that are more common to their own demographic. Also having attending physicians, faculty members, and health administrators involved as mentors, and in other ways, will give an added layer of support to the students and residents helping to create a pipeline of mentoring for all who participate at both the learning and training stages.