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Student Mentoring Program at Esperanza<\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\n

Training a Future Generation of Christian Health Professions Leaders<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

For years, Esperanza Health Center has participated with numerous medical and graduate health professions schools as a site where students can complete required clinical rotations in areas such as family medicine. These rotations have helped students gain an understanding of the complexities of health care in an urban setting, and have led some to pursue careers in underserved communities. In 2015, Esperanza’s\u00a0Student Mentoring Program<\/strong>\u00a0was established with the goal of cultivating in-depth, personal mentorship for Christian health professions students, helping them to integrate their faith and their clinical experiences. Each student in the program is paired with an Esperanza clinician mentor for the duration of their graduate studies. As David Feister, Esperanza’s Medical Department Administrator, explained: “The vision of this program is to provide a way to dive deeper into student mentorship by creating a context for both clinical development and relationship building over the course of students’ training.”\u00a0

One of the program’s eight current participants is Claire Shaffer (photo, R), a\u00a0third-year medical student at the Temple University School of Medicine. She has been paired with Amaris Allan, M.D., Esperanza’s Fifth Street Site Medical Director as her mentor. “I was almost sure I wanted to participate after I did SMI [Summer Medical Institute] between my first and second year and got to spend some time with doctors from Esperanza during those weeks,” said Claire. \u00a0“It has been wonderful to get to know [Dr. Allan] and for her to get to know me\u00a0<\/span>\u2013\u00a0it makes such a difference to have somebody you trust to go to with questions or share concerns with!”<\/span><\/p>\n

Zachary Lorenz (photo, L), a second-year student at Thomas Jefferson University Medical College, was one of the initial program participants in the fall of 2015; his mentor is Timothy Leaman, M.D., Kensington Site Medical Director at Esperanza. “The process of becoming a doctor is a long one that I have only just begun,” said Zachary. “But, I’ve already seen God use the process to continue to to grow and mold me into the physician he intends me to be. It helps to be surrounded by people who I think speak to that vision, such as Dr. Leaman.” \u00a0<\/p>\n

As Claire explained, her experiences at Esperanza have impacted her understanding of patient-clinician relationships: “Now that I have done several rotations at Esperanza, I think what I took away most was the way that clinicians loved even the frustrating patients, and the hope that they had for patients in situations that were very difficult. I have rarely gotten to hug my patients since my rotation at Esperanza, and now that I sit down to think about it I miss that!”\u00a0<\/p>\n

Congratulations to our APEX Award Winners!<\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\n
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We’re excited to announce that three members of Esperanza’s staff and Board of Directors received\u00a02016 APEX Awards for Primary Care Excellence<\/strong>\u00a0from the Pennsylvania Association of Community Health Centers (PACHC)!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n