DistrictZero

Faculty Orientation

Platform Overview

DistrictZero's spaced-mentorship platform is designed in partnership with SSOM to improve the educational experience in undergraduate medical education. Our approach is grounded in the competency frameworks established by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine (AACOM), and the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME).

Key Features and Outcomes

  • •Facilitates evidence-based mentorship connections aligned with specialty interests and educational outcomes
  • •Focuses on psychosocial factors such as well-being and professional identity formation
  • •Aligns with AAMC, AACOM, and ACGME core competencies for UME learner development
  • •Delivers holistic-learner analytics to align the mentorship experience
  • •Provides efficient tools to optimize mentor engagement and effectiveness
  • •Offers 24/7 anytime help center to support mentees, mentors, and owner administrators

Addressing Challenges in Medical Education Mentorship

  • •Mitigates fragmentation in mentorship programs through a cohesive system
  • •Enhances student engagement with mentors through structured and spaced interactions
  • •Optimizes mentor efficiency by streamlining assessment and feedback analysis processes
  • •Centralizes data for organizational-wide comprehensive analysis and informed decision-making
  • •Enables administrators to quantitatively and qualitatively evaluate mentorship outcomes

Traditional Mentorship Time Investment

Time consumption chart showing typical mentorship intervention preparation breakdown

Analysis of manual tasks and time allocation in traditional mentorship program interventions