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MP20-03 #UROSTREAM101: SOCIAL MEDIA AS A MEDIUM FOR MENTORSHIP IN UROLOGY

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVE: With the cancellation of medical school away rotations due to COVID-19, students lost a key benefit: mentorship from current residents. We sought to fill this need via a pilot study of a virtual mentorship program, #UroStream101. METHODS: We paired urology resident volunteers with 4th year medical students interested in urology. Students were paired based on urologic interest and to a mentor in a different AUA section. All participants were provided resources about successful mentorship. To stimulate engagement between mentor-mentee, an optional tweetorial project was designed, with the goal of educational resource creation. RESULTS: 111 students and 93 urology residents enlisted in #Urostream101. All AUA sections were represented. At time of enrollment 19% of medical students lacked affiliation with a urology department, 24% lacked urology mentors, and 32% had no formal clinical exposure to urology. Many students joined twitter during the application cycle (59% within 1 month of enrollment) for solely professional reasons (71% of participants). When asked their top priority in participating in #Uro- Stream101, most students answered resident mentorship (60%) followed by exposure to a urology program outside their region (32%). Over twenty Tweetorials were created. These spanned the breadth of urology and were retweeted an average of 18 times (range: 6-64). Program success was assessed with MEMeQ, a validated mentorship assessment survey. 26% of students completed the full evaluation survey, assessing a student's goals and progression towards them. Overall program ranking was 6/7 on likert scale, “very satisfied”. Students identified program selection and ERAS application assistance as their main goals, with mentors described as “inspirational”, “accessible”, and “supportive”. CONCLUSIONS: #UroStream101 was a successful pilot program providing mentorship for students. This was desperately needed during an atypical application cycle and provided knowledge that will be invaluable in further developing the program going forward.