Mentoring in Medicine: A Retrospective Study
Keywords:
Mentoring model, Mentoring type, Mentorship, Mentor and mentee, All Saints University School of Medicine, Dominica.Abstract
The formal type requires documentation, planning, legal agreement between the mentor and mentee, a curriculum and inclusively program funding. Although, the most common model identified among women was the peer model. Additionally, mentees and mentors both valued the idea of time allocation. Mentoring in medicine was found useful in areas of career satisfaction and career planning, personal growth and professional development, development of self-confidence and good communication skills. Mentoring was also found to play an important role in academic medicine and research.We were able to clarify the impact of mentoring on career planning and development, personal growth and professional development, self-confidence and good communication skills and its role in academic medicine and research to be positive. In overall, mentorship has proved to be a necessity in all aspects of medicine within the past few years.
The aim of this research is to carry out an evidence-based retrospective study reviewing data acquired from previous research articles published between 2011 and 2016; in order to access the impact of mentorship in medicine through data extraction, presentation and meta-analysis. Also, we intend to identify the common models and types of mentoring reported to be used in medicine (academic, research and clinical medicine) between 2011 and 2016.
We reviewed PMC, BMC journals, AAMC, MEDLINE and CLINICALKEY for articles published between 2011 and 2016 pertaining to mentoring in medicine. Searches were conducted with the use of the following key phrases such as “mentoring in medicine”, “effect of mentorship on future physicians”, “systematic review of mentoring in medicine” “mentoring surveys in medicine”. The data obtained was then analyzed and presented in tables followed by a detailed and concise interpretation. From the data analyzed we were able to identify the common mentoring models and types commonly used in medicine between 2011 and 2016. The common mentoring models identified in this research include: one-one (Dyad), peer facilitated, multiple mentors and electronic (Distance) model. Moreover, the common types of mentoring identified include: Formal and Informal.
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