We are committed to supporting physicians throughout their career. Enhance, the College’s free mentoring for medics programme, creates a safe environment for clinicians to share their experiences, learn from each other and develop key professional skills.
Research has shown the positive benefits of going through the mentoring process during periods of transition and other challenging times in your career. Mentee’s benefit from impartial advice and support from a like-minded clinician, having the opportunity to discuss challenges, and learn from the experiences of someone outside their daily working environment.
There are many benefits to being a mentor too. The chance to share your knowledge and experiences, and contribute to the growth of a clinician during a time of transition or challenge. You will receive valuable mentoring training which will develop and improve your own listening and communication skills which you can use in your day-to-day role.
“I found mentoring very helpful over the first 18 months of being a consultant. My mentor was very supportive, and a good listener. It was nice to have someone outside my department or hospital to discuss things with. She had lots of useful advice, and it was helpful to hear her own experiences.”
Enhance Mentee
Management and leadership issues
Professional development and career transition
Interpersonal relationships and team working
Time management
Personal skills/attributes
Work life balance
We match mentees based on the skills, experience and knowledge they would like to gain, with a mentor who has highlighted they could provide value in that area based on their expertise. We use an algorithm tool to identify the best possible match for both parties. Both mentors and mentees will have the option to say whether they prefer mentoring to take place in person or online, and both will be able to accept or reject any mentoring matches if they don’t feel it fits their needs.
If you would like to know more information, please email enhance@rcpe.ac.uk
Register for Enhance as a mentee or mentor on our secure platform which will guide you through the simple registration process. Once you register, we will confirm your association with the College and then you will be able create your profile.
