M E N T O R

We’re going through changes
By now you’re all avid readers, so you know what I have been up to this year, but what about the rest of the
Medic Mentor family? Well, some pretty big changes have taken place in the latter months of 2016 that we
wanted to share with you.
Perhaps the most exciting of all is the arrival of a swathe of fresh faces; the new scholars. It’s out with the
old and in with the new as we come to terms with handing over the projects that have become our babies
to our Medic Mentor Scholarship successors.
You may have already felt the presence of the company’s wisest new recruits; the Medi Council. The pun
is bound to split opinion but their expertise is indisputable. These junior doctors hold a previously unheard
of level of insight and, in the absence of dark forces to be fought, will be keeping the scholars on their toes.
Weak minds need not apply.
Drs Dhakshana Sivayoganathan and Iain Kennedy have a new arrival of their own on the way. At minus
three months old and already drafted in as Medic Mentor’s youngest member, have we finally found a job
that Dhakshana cannot take in her stride? No. Dr Sivayoganathan is moving from CEO to Director of
Communications to allow for greater flexibility, but she remains just a phone call away if you need help.
Conference attendees will still get time with our best known mentor, but she now comes equipped with
bump or baby boy. Iain is currently trying on Dhakshana’s very large CEO boots; I think he rather likes
them but there’s a lot to learn and Medic Mentor’s 2017 diary is filling up fast.
That would leave Dr Kennedy’s role as Director of Education open but it is being filled by Dr Rebecca
Yates, last year’s Widening Access Scholar. Dr Yates is currently working as an FY1 in Wales and will add
taking care of the incoming scholars to her long list of responsibilities.
The more attentive amongst you may have realised that this makes the November edition my last as Publishing
Scholar and therefore my last as editor. Do not fear, I’m moving on up but I’m not moving away. At
the beginning of December I hand over the magazine’s production to its new editor (the new publishing
scholar) and I become the Director of Publishing. You should still see my articles and know that I’m somewhere
behind the scenes, making sure we get a great magazine to you every quarter. My fan-mail should
now be directed to publishing@medicmentor.org.
GGet involved
We’ve profiled the new lot below, be on the lookout for their faces at upcoming events.
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