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...

This paper assesses the incidence and contribution that mentoring has to the career development of retail managers. Previous research has identified the benefits that mentoring relationships have for the protégé, the mentor and the organisation, although none have compared the experiences and attitudes towards mentoring within the retail environment. Drawing on a sample of 132 retail managers i...

Understanding the goals and constraints of other disciplines are key to working well in cross-disciplinary Problem-, Project-, Product-, Process-, People-Based Learning (PBL) teams. Education environments rarely offer learners opportunities to participate in authentic cross-disciplinary PBL experiences. This paper reports on the role of mentoring in cross-disciplinary learning in Stanford Unive...

A mentor is a person who takes a special interest in the professional development of a junior colleague and provides guidance and support. Mentoring can be beneficial for students, residents, junior colleagues and researchers and can be very rewarding for the physician who provides this guidance. Although mentoring is a well recognized topic in academic medicine, relatively little has been writ...

Youth mentoring programs are an increasingly popular intervention, and although successful mentoring relationships can promote a range of positive developmental outcomes, relationships that fail can lead to decrements in a youth’s functioning and selfesteem. The present research develops and validates a youth mentoring relationship quality inventory, based on data from a national evaluation of ...

Mentoring plays an important role in learning and career development. Mentored researchers are more productive and more likely to publish their work. However, mentorship programs are not universally used in most settings or disciplines. Furthermore, successful and mutually beneficial mentoring relationships are not always easy to arrange. Long-distance mentoring relationships are even more diff...

As a major employer of health information professionals, the VA faces significant recruitment and retention challenges. The authors evaluated mentoring as a retention tool through a review of existing literature and the retrospective review of a VA health information management mentoring program. The literature review showed a link between employer mentorship and employee retention, regardless ...