Our mentoring program has been defined as a "Pedagogical, support and exchange system between an experienced doctor (mentor) and the student (mentee) in a longitudinal (3 years) and non-hierarchical relationship, aimed at the professional empowerment of the mentee".The mentoring takes place in a friendly and non-hierarchical atmosphere with 4 meetings per year of approximately 1.5 to 2 hours every 3 months during the 3 years of the mentee's assistantship. This is an interim evaluation of our mentoring programMentees’ questionnaires were examined using a semi-quantitative approach, followed by an inductive thematic analysis of the open-ended responses. Mentors were assessed through a separate questionnaire.”The results are very encouraging from both the mentees' and mentors' perspectives. The inductive thematic analysis highlighted seven main themes (the challenges of general practice residency, the organization of the internship, work–life balance, on-call duties, clinical cases, ethical issues, the final thesis, and professional relationships.”). Four locations were identified where the meetings took place: the mentor's doctor's office, the mentor's home; a restaurant/café/bar; an outdoor or informal setting ("in a park," "during a walk," "in a garden," "during a bowling game"). Of the 27 students, only one did not complete all the meetings and was the subject of a separate analysis.Several potential pitfalls have been identified: mentor training and the method of forming mentor-mentee pairs. The deliberately encouraged informal framework for mentor-mentee meetings could lead to unstructured processes, but it remains a distinctive feature of our program.Our interim evaluation after one year of operation is encouraging, even though many potential pitfalls have been identified. The specific features of our program, namely the three-year longitudinal follow-up of mentees and the informal framework of mentor-mentee meetings, still need to be precisely defined.