A symbiotic approach to mentoring future academics

Thoms, Lesley; Parmar, Kiran; Williamson, Timothy

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“…The effectiveness of residents, junior academic trainees, and peer mentoring for medical students has also been revealed by several previous data sets. [18][19][20][21] The effectiveness of residents as mentors may be attributed to the fact that resident mentors present fewer barriers to students compared with faculty.…”

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Mentoring Clinical-Year Medical Students: Factors Contributing to Effective Mentoring

Fallatah

Park

Farsi

et al. 2018

Journal of Medical Education and Curricular Development

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Theory:Academic mentoring is an effective method of enhancing undergraduate medical student academic performance, research productivity, career planning, and overall satisfaction.Hypotheses:This study investigates the relationship between mentor characteristics and mentee academic performance, with an emphasis on identifying students who need special support.Methods:A cross-sectional study was conducted among fourth-year medical students at King Abdulaziz University Faculty of Medicine undertaking the clinical skills module (CSM) rotation. Mentors included senior and junior faculty members from the Department of Internal Medicine and the Department of Family Medicine. King Abdulaziz University Faculty of Medicine assigned 1 mentor for every 10 medical students. We organized our mentoring program in the following format: (1) an initial group meeting (mentor with all 10 medical students) and (2) subsequent one-on-one meetings (mentor with each mentee alone). We assessed mentor characteristics, student academic performance and satisfaction, and the rate of mentees referred for special support.Results:A total of 184 students completed the CSM rotation. Among these, 90 students responded to the preprogram survey, with 83% reporting that mentoring was important to them. Group meetings and one-on-one meetings were attended by 60% and 49% of all students, respectively. The most frequent type of support required by the participating students was psychological support (12% of mentees). Participation in the mentoring program had no significant effect on student academic performance. Mentor seniority (P = .024) and motivation (P = .002) were significantly associated with the rate of student referral for special support.Conclusions:This study demonstrated that academic mentoring can be effective in enhancing student outcomes and promoting special support for students. Moreover, mentor and mentee motivation were found to be essential elements of a successful mentoring program.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Mentoring Clinical-Year Medical Students: Factors Contributing to Effective Mentoring

Fallatah

Park

Farsi

et al. 2018

Journal of Medical Education and Curricular Development

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“…As such mentors not only need training to equip and develop their skills in mentoring but also benefit from receiving mentoring themselves [8,9,25,28,35,42]. The skilled helper model for individual support by Gerald Egan is a useful tool for mentors to consider with regards to facilitating problem solving for their mentees [44]. Davies [9], has provided a handy acronym which encompasses the key components of mentoring.…”

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Developing Palliative Care Physicians through Mentoring Relationships

Toh¹

2017

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BackgroundMentoring has been shown to improve resilience, sense of well-being, reduce staff turnover and to render psycho-emotional support in clinical medicine in general. Palliative care physicians face burnout, compassion fatigue and death anxiety. Whilst existing literature describes the benefit of formal mentoring programs and it's short to medium term goals, there is a lack of data describing the relational aspects of mentoring and its long term goals in shaping a physician. ObjectivesWe aim to explore the perspectives of mentors and mentees featured in editorials, perspective and opinion pieces to lend a glimpse into the long term impact, the relational and personal aspects of mentoring.

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Elevating the Profession of Navigation

Shockney

2017

Team-Based Oncology Care: The Pivotal Role of Oncology Navigation

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A symbiotic approach to mentoring future academics

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Mentoring Clinical-Year Medical Students: Factors Contributing to Effective Mentoring

Mentoring Clinical-Year Medical Students: Factors Contributing to Effective Mentoring

Developing Palliative Care Physicians through Mentoring Relationships

Elevating the Profession of Navigation

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