{"pk":17344,"title":"Buddy System: An Interventional Peer-Mentoring Program Between Fourth-Year Medical Students and Emergency Medicine Residents","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Learning Objectives: To implement a peer mentorship program and assess its impact on the levels of stress and self-esteem of fourth year medical students.\nBackground: Residents and medical students often face significant stress during their training which negatively impacts their wellbeing and job satisfaction. Peer mentoring is a dynamic social construct shown to have a positive effect on psychosocial wellbeing, stress reduction, and job satisfaction. We hypothesize that implementing a buddy system between emergency medicine (EM) residents and fourth year medical students will have a beneficial effect towards decreasing stress levels and improving self-esteem during their EM rotation.\nObjectives: To implement a peer mentorship program and assess its impact on the perceived levels of stress and self-esteem of fourth year students.\nCurriculum design: We implemented a 5-week 1:1 peer-mentoring program between 27 students and current EM residents at a Level I Trauma center over three rotation months. Prior to the rotation, they each received an email introducing the buddy system and outlining suggested topics and a meeting frequency of three times. Students completed surveys incorporating the 10 item Perceived Stress Scale and the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale both one week prior and on the last day of the rotation. Random numbers were assigned for anonymity.\nImpact: In total, 25 of 27 pre and post surveys were collected. Preliminary data shows that 84% of buddy pairs met at least three times, 92% of students perceived the intervention positively, and 84% believed it contributed to their overall wellbeing. This is an easy platform to implement with no cost or constraints on a residency program. By implementing peer-mentorship early it can have a rapid positive effect, foster a larger network of mentorship, and improve the psychological safety of trainees.","language":"en","license":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0","short_name":"CC BY 4.0","text":"Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0"},"keywords":[],"section":"Abstracts","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/24t5728c","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Yehuda","middle_name":"","last_name":"Wenger","name_suffix":"","institution":"","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Ramin","middle_name":"","last_name":"Tabatabai","name_suffix":"","institution":"","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Brad","middle_name":"","last_name":"Stone","name_suffix":"","institution":"","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Linda","middle_name":"","last_name":"Papa","name_suffix":"","institution":"","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Jesus","middle_name":"","last_name":"Roa","name_suffix":"","institution":"","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2022-08-25T04:24:54Z","date_accepted":"2022-08-25T04:24:54Z","date_published":"2022-09-07T04:42:59Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/17344/galley/8808/download/"}]}