North East Mentorship Scheme

North East Mentorship Scheme (NEMS)

About

The North East Mentorship Scheme has been established to provide formal mentoring partnerships between 1st year core trainees and specialty registrars. Evaluations of the scheme have shown significant benefits for both the mentees and mentors.

100% of mentees and mentors recommend joining the scheme

Mentees feel better prepared for specialty training and interviews or achieving self-development goals

Mentors feel increased confidence in supervising and training

Who for?

NEMS is currently operating within the Schools of Surgery, Medicine, Lab Medicine, Paediatrics and Public Health. Further schools will be added in September 2025.

Mentees need to be in CT1, ST1 or IMT1

Mentors need to be ST4-8

When?

The next recruitment cycle will begin in September 2024

How to apply:

Eligible trainees will be emailed application links via their programme support officers in September 2024.

Mentorship Skills:

A requirement for mentoring on NEMS is completing mentoring training.
This can be achieved by either the 1 hour eLearning package: www.e-lfh.org.uk/programmes/medical-mentoring
or attending the LSFD Mentoring Skills Workshop: https://fast.ncl.ac.uk/