History of AIMMS Mentoring
AIMMS Mentoring is the first national medical schools mentoring scheme that connects women from ethnic minority backgrounds at various clinical and non-clinical career pathways to provide them with a chance of acting as mentees and/or mentors to each other and to provide role models.
The idea is that it may be difficult to find mentors in senior positions with this intersectional background within any one institution so we adopted a cross institutional approach.
The scheme has been created to support the career development of ethnic minority women within medical schools and academic medicine in the UK, and through this to facilitate their progression to leadership levels.
The scheme was founded and run by the University of Southampton in collaboration with the other founding members including the Academy of Medical Sciences and the universities of Birmingham, Cardiff, Exeter, Hull York Medical School, Leeds, Leicester, St Andrews and Swansea. It has now expanded to include all UK medical schools as hosted by the Medical Schools Council.
