We encourage our physician mentors to apply year around.  We typically match physician mentors to mentees annually between March and May.  This corresponds with our admission cycle for students in our mentoring programs.  For that reason we need to identify a strong cohort of available physicians each year as students are only admitted based on our ability to place them with a mentor.  As need develops, we will often match a mentee with a mentor off cycle as well so having physicians available and ready to pair with a mentee helps us create a robust system of mentee support.