Background: Despite the advantages of dual peer mentoring, there are a few reports of implementing and evaluating such programs for medical students. This study aimed at exploring the perceptions of mentors and mentees about the dual peer mentoring program for the first year undergraduate medical students of Tehran University of Medical Sciences. Methods: This qualitative study was conducted at...

Background: The unification process for clinical education in Europe seeks to standardise the attainment of competencies by students and effective mentorship is central to this. Aim: This paper is a report on a study describing Finnish and British mentors’ conceptions of mentorship provision for pre-registration nursing students during placement learning in healthcare settings. Methods: This qu...

BACKGROUND Mentoring is important throughout a physician's career and has been noted to be particularly important during residency training. Other studies suggest that women may experience difficulty in finding mentors. PURPOSE This study explored gender-specific differences in residents' mentoring experiences. METHODS The authors conducted two focus groups at the University of Pittsburgh i...

PURPOSE The first year is stressful for new medical students who have to cope with curricular challenges, relocation issues, and separation from family. Mentoring reduces stress and facilitates adaptation. A program for faculty mentoring of first-semester students was initiated by the Medical Education Unit in 2009 at University College of Medical Sciences, Delhi. Feedback after the first year ...

s In this study we aimed to investigate the role of innovative elements in the training of Kinesitherapy and Ergotherapy and their application in clinical practice. The survey included 285 third year students and 50 mentors. An anonymous survey was conducted amongst students of “Rehabilitation therapist” profile at Medical College Stara Zagora and the mentors in the educational and practical fa...

Players of epistemic games – computer games that simulate professional practica – have been shown to develop epistemic frames: a profession’s particular way of seeing and solving problems. This study examined the interactions between players and mentors in one epistemic game, Urban Science. Using a new method called epistemic network analysis, we explored how players develop epistemic frames th...

The lecture room instructional management competence (LRIMC) of novice nurse educators (NNEs) in the Republic of South Africa (RSA) was investigated by means of a quantitative exploratory survey using questionnaires. The findings indicated that NNEs benefited from mentors' guidance, experienced reality shock on entering their first teaching situation, and lacked LRIMC--according to the percepti...

The responsibility of research supervisors to act as mentors is a common theme today. But mentoring takes many forms and should not be separated from acting as role models for those around us. The importance of this influence recently became more apparent to me, when Jack Gorski—my first postdoctoral supervisor—died. I wrote to Jack in 1972, to ask if I could work in his laboratory at the Unive...

Racism and White supremacy culture shape the experiences of youth adults in mentoring programs, which is detrimental to development BIPOC youth. The aims this paper are a) show why anti-racism training education for adult mentors necessary promoting positive b) offer a framework anti-racist mentors. We review research showing how mentors’ attitudes about race, ethnicity can harm their relations...

BACKGROUND A School of Nursing supports third-year undergraduate students (mentees) by means of a mentoring programme in which critical-care nursing students (mentors) are involved. However, the programme designers needed to find out what gaps were evident in the programme. OBJECTIVES The objectives of the study were to explore and describe the learning experiences of the mentees and mentors ...