Objectives: To explore the perceptions of mentees of the role mentoring plays in developing a medical career and seeming advantages and disadvantages. Methods: In this qualitative study, 21 mentored and nonmentored doctors in postgraduate specialty years one to eight were recruited from the Mersey deanery in England. Semi-structured interviews were used to assess perceptions of the mentored pos...

PURPOSE To examine relationships among having formal and informal mentors, mentoring behaviors, and satisfaction and productivity for academic medicine faculty. METHOD In 2005, the authors surveyed full-time faculty at the University of Minnesota Medical School to assess their perceptions of variables associated with job satisfaction and productivity. This analysis focused on perceptions of m...

INTRODUCTION Mentoring is increasingly recognized as central to career development. Less attention has been paid, however, to how mentoring relationships evolve over time. To provide a more complete picture of these complex relationships, the authors explored mentoring from a mentee's perspective within the context of a three-year faculty development program in which the mentor provided specifi...

PURPOSE Career development award programs often require formal establishment of mentoring relationships. The authors sought to gain a nuanced understanding of mentoring from the perspective of a diverse national sample of faculty clinician-researchers who were all members of formal mentoring relationships. METHOD Between February 2010 and August 2011, the authors conducted semistructured, in-...

PURPOSE Until now, mentoring has hardly been used by the medical profession in German-speaking countries as a means of supporting junior physicians in their careers. The aim of the mentoring project described here was to obtain information for promoting and developing future mentoring programs at a university hospital. METHOD A new integrated mentoring model was developed and implemented over...

The experiences of first-year, first-time college students are impacted by a variety challenges that pose threat to student success and retention. One intervention universities implementing address these peer mentorship programs. While the benefits programs well-researched, there is lack research on for mentors themselves. purpose this study was examine perceived demonstrable working within fir...

BACKGROUND Youth with chronic physical health problems often experience social and emotional problems. We investigate the relationship between participation in the Big Brothers Big Sisters of Canada community-based mentoring programs (BBBS) and youth social and mood outcomes by youth health status. METHODS Youth newly enrolled in BBBS were classified by health status (one or more chronic phys...