[Irene C. Szeto, M.D.]

I have a solo practice in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics.   Mentoring has always been a regular activity in my office.  For years, until the local teaching hospital set up their own Med-Peds outpatient program, my office was set up as one of the outpatient clinical rotations for Med-Peds residents.  One of the residents who rotated through my office for a few years is current head of the medicine residency program.  Aside from that, I now mentor Physician’s Assistants and Nurse Practitioners.  Meantime, my medical assistants serve as mentors for medical assistant students seeking clinical experience.  My patients have become familiar with our mentoring roles and ask about the students when they do not see any.  When I go out into the community or walk through the hospital, individuals who have rotated through my office approach me with gratitiude.  I am not monetarily compensated for any of this mentoring. I look at it as a way of giving back.

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