Electronic mentoring (e-mentoring) programs are providing unprecedented opportunities for establishing mentoring relationships. E-mentoring is the merger of mentoring with electronic communications and links mentors with protégés independent of geography or scheduling constraints. Unique qualities of electronic communications, such as the attenuation of status differences and the ease of though...

An e-mentoring system is an online tool that enables interactive mentoring between a mentor and a mentee, regardless of place and time differences. This paper discusses the system design of an e-mentoring system for Malaysian orphans, called MyMentorMentee.com. The design of MyMentorMentee.com is an adaptation of Keller's ARCS Motivational model and uses its motivational elements to provide an ...

BACKGROUND Mentoring is important for personal and professional development of doctors. Peer mentoring is a core skill in the UK paediatric postgraduate curriculum. However, there is a paucity of peer mentoring programmes aimed at postgraduate doctors in training (postgraduate trainees), and there are no such schemes within paediatrics described in the literature. We developed a regional peer m...

AIM Mentoring is widely acknowledged as being crucial for portfolio learning. The aim of this study is to examine how mentoring portfolio use has been implemented in undergraduate and postgraduate settings. METHOD The results of interviews with six key persons involved in setting up portfolio use in medical education programmes were used to develop a questionnaire, which was administered to 3...

RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES The purpose of this report is to describe the development and implementation of a faculty mentoring program in radiology designed to promote the career development of junior faculty and enhance communication in the department. MATERIALS AND METHODS The mentoring program was implemented in five stages: organizational readiness, participant recruitment, mentor matching ...

PURPOSE Mentoring is critical for career advancement in academic medicine. However, underrepresented minority (URM) faculty often receive less mentoring than their nonminority peers. The authors conducted a comprehensive review of published mentoring programs designed for URM faculty to identify "promising practices." METHOD Databases (PubMed, PsycINFO, ERIC, PsychLit, Google Scholar, Dissert...

PURPOSE To explore the mentor-mentee relationship with a focus on determining the characteristics of effective mentors and mentees and understanding the factors influencing successful and failed mentoring relationships. METHOD The authors completed a qualitative study through the Departments of Medicine at the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine and the University of California, San Fra...

Given the predicted shortages of dental faculty in the United States, it is important to retain faculty members. Mentoring could play a crucial role in this context. The objectives of this case study were to explore how a six-year mentoring program in the Department of Periodontics and Oral Medicine at the University of Michigan School of Dentistry changed faculty members' perceptions of suppor...

We aim to review literature on mentoring in academia, with a focus on women at an early stage of their academic career: mentoring has been recognised as an important instrument to foster careers and address the gender imbalance in science. However, while mentoring initiatives for women academics are flourishing, most of these experiences are not discussed in scholarly literature: this does not ...

This initiative is the first of this kind in Australia and supports the development of a trained volunteer mentoring network, offering opportunities for people in early recovery to develop supportive mutually beneficial mentoring relationships through regular contact with someone who has lived through and recovered from body image or eating issues for a minimum six month mentoring contract. Rec...