Purpose
The Wellness Mentoring Program at Carle Illinois College of Medicine is a peer-to-peer mentoring program to address student wellness using a holistic approach. It is a novel initiative that pairs first-year medical student mentees with upperclassmen mentors to address their wellness needs at an individual level via our wellness wheel. We present our results from the initial, first-time survey of mentees in the program.

Methods
First-year medical students (i.e., mentees) interested in mentorship were paired with upperclassmen medical student mentors (second, third, and fourth years) based on personality traits, interests, and goals. Surveys of the mentees were used to evaluate nine areas of wellness (criteria: intellectual, innovative, emotional, social, spiritual, vocational, environmental, physical, and financial) on a Likert scale from 1-5, with 1 being the least satisfied and 5 being the most satisfied. Individual first-year student responses (n=4) were collected. The ratio of the ratings at the end of the term to the average of all nine ratings at the beginning of the term per mentee was determined. Averages of the ratio per mentee were then calculated to evaluate percent change in wellness across the Fall semester.

Results
From the beginning to the end of the Fall semester, there were varying degrees of change in the nine wellness criteria. We saw average increases across five reported criteria: 12% for physical, 10% for social, 6% for environmental, 3% for emotional, and 1% for intellectual. We also observed average decreases in four reported criteria: 1% in vocational, 12% in innovative, 19% in spiritual, 31% in financial.

Conclusion
Our peer-mentoring program successfully paired new medical students with upperclassmen mentors. Evaluation of the program in its nascent stages showed benefit to the students surveyed, with an improvement in the majority of the wellness criteria (physical, social, environmental, emotional, intellectual) for mentees.