Schmedlen, R., & Lee, J. W., & Shekhar, P., & Stegemann, J. (2019, June), The Clinical Peer Mentors Program:  Student Motivations, Skills and Knowledge Acquisition, and Influence on Career Path  Paper presented at 2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition , Tampa, Florida. 10.18260/1-2--33376

\bibitem{asee_peer_33376}
  Schmedlen, R., \& Lee, J. W., \& Shekhar, P., \& Stegemann, J. (2019, June), \emph{The Clinical Peer Mentors Program:  Student Motivations, Skills and Knowledge Acquisition, and Influence on Career Path}
  Paper presented at 2019 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition , Tampa, Florida.
  10.18260/1-2--33376

Rachael Schmedlen, Jin Woo Lee, Prateek Shekhar, and Jan Stegemann.  "The Clinical Peer Mentors Program:  Student Motivations, Skills and Knowledge Acquisition, and Influence on Career Path".  2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition , Tampa, Florida, 2019, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2019.  https://peer.asee.org/33376 Internet.  11 Feb, 2025

\bibitem{asee_peer_33376}
  Rachael Schmedlen, Jin Woo Lee, Prateek Shekhar, and Jan Stegemann.
  "The Clinical Peer Mentors Program:  Student Motivations, Skills and Knowledge Acquisition, and Influence on Career Path".
  \emph{2019 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition , Tampa, Florida, 2019, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2019.
  https://peer.asee.org/33376 Internet.  11 Feb, 2025

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AB  - We have created a Clinical Peer Mentor program that expands opportunities for clinical immersion, needs finding, and leadership for our biomedical engineering students to better prepare them for careers in medicine, research, and the med tech industry.  Clinical Peer Mentors (CPMs), spend approximately 10 weeks during the summer observing within various clinical departments and conducting needs finding.  They receive training in observation, interviewing, and clinical etiquette at the beginning of the program and receive feedback during weekly meetings with their program mentor.  In addition, CPMs assess and scope the needs they have identified as well as others presented to them by clinicians or discovered by students enrolled in a clinical observation and needs finding course.  By the end of the summer, CPMs generate multiple project proposals for the BME capstone design course and clinical handbooks that serve as a quick reference guide for any BME student preparing for a first-time clinical observation.  During the academic year, CPMs act as a resource for BME capstone design teams, providing clinical perspective, and facilitate clinical observation opportunities for BME students by serving as operating room chaperones.  

This investigational study reports the benefits of participation in the CPM program, now in its fourth year, in particular the skills, knowledge, and self-efficacy gained through the program that translate well to their career paths.  Furthermore, this paper will discuss what CPMs value most about their experience and how it impacts their perceptions of interdisciplinary clinical collaboration, BME, and their career goals.  Assessment was conducted by a mixed methods study that includes interviews and surveys of current and former participants in the program.  

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