Mentoring Programs that Promote Humanistic Care (RFP)

Mentoring Programs that Promote Humanistic Care - Request for Proposals

Program Status: Historical RFP (issued October 2013, awarded January 2014)

Purpose: Fund mentoring programs that result in enhanced capacity of healthcare providers to deliver care that is as humanistic and compassionate as it is scientifically and technically sophisticated.

Target Population:

• Physicians and nurses in training
• Early practice physicians and nurses
• Medical educators and faculty
• Health profession educators

Focus Areas: Mentoring interventions specifically designed to help physicians and nurses in training and early practice to be more humanistic in their patient care

Mentoring Model Types Considered:

• Traditional one-on-one mentoring
• Group mentoring models
• Peer mentoring models
• Distance or digital mentoring
• 'Hands-on' mentorship in clinical settings

Grantee Projects (2014):

1. George Washington University School of Medicine - Training Faculty to be Mentors in Humanism
2. University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Nursing & Health Studies - Intentional Mentoring: HELP Program
3. North Shore LIJ Health System - Mentoring and Professionalism in Training (MAP-IT)
4. New York Medical College - Deliberate Humanism: A Longitudinal Mentoring Curriculum
5. New York University School of Medicine - Fostering Humanistic Mentoring
6. Marian University - Meaningful Medicine Mentoring Program
7. Brown University/Hasbro Children's Hospital - Building Bridges: Primary Care and Mental Health Integration
8. Penn State University School of Medicine - From Bedside Backstory to Compassionate Care

Support Provided:

• Funding for project implementation
• One-day workshop for project teams with expert consultants and other grantees
• Opportunity for cross-fertilization of ideas