Our Mentor Program links our healthcare graduate students with Suffolk University alumni and friends who are professionals in the healthcare field. Each student uses his or her mentor as a sounding board and source of information and guidance during the early part of graduate school. Mentors and students are linked according to areas of shared interest and expertise, so that, for example, a student who is particularly interested in hospital administration is matched with a mentor who is a hospital administrator.

Mission

The Mentor Program seeks to encourage relationships between students and alumni mentors that enable the students to more fully integrate academic theory and career practice.

Objectives

     1. For each student to be able to share his or her perspectives, ideas, strategies, and questions in a friendly forum.

     2. For each mentor, as a practitioner, to be able to stay abreast of changes in healthcare administration theory through interaction with the healthcare student.

     3. For each student to learn from his or her mentor’s experiences, personal insights, knowledge, and know-how.

     4. For each mentor to offer guidance to a student in preparing for or advancing in the healthcare field, including defining career objectives and making effective career choices.

     5. For mentors and international students to learn...

• from each other’s cultural background,
• about their respective country’s healthcare systems,
• how new knowledge and skilled can be used to improve the functioning of these systems.

From the program kick-off in mid-October to the end of the program in mid-April, mentor-student pairs are encouraged to meet at least once a month. And, we encourage mentors and students to keep in touch between meeting through telephone calls and emails, as appropriate. Our mentors and students report that they are finding the Mentor Program to be enjoyable and beneficial.

Organizations from which our Mentors have been drawn

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Brookline Public Health Department

Career Staff Limited, a Division of Sun healthcare Group, Inc.

Center for Health Innovation, Noblis

Children’s Hospital Boston

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Massachusetts General Hospital
 
Massachusetts Hospital Association

Newton Wellesley Hospital

Partners Private Care

Pfizer Pharmaceuticals

Tufts Medical Center