A scoping review of mentor training programs in medicine between 1990 and 2017

Effective mentoring enhances the personal and professional development of mentees and mentors, boosts the reputation of host organizations and improves patient outcomes. Much of this success hinges upon the mentor’s ability to nurture personalized mentoring relationships and mentoring environments,...

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Main Authors: Krish Sheri, Jue Ying Joan Too, Sing En Lydia Chuah, Ying Pin Toh, Stephen Mason, Lalit Kumar Radha Krishna
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Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2019-01-01
Series:Medical Education Online
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10872981.2018.1555435
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author Krish Sheri
Jue Ying Joan Too
Sing En Lydia Chuah
Ying Pin Toh
Stephen Mason
Lalit Kumar Radha Krishna
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Jue Ying Joan Too
Sing En Lydia Chuah
Ying Pin Toh
Stephen Mason
Lalit Kumar Radha Krishna
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description Effective mentoring enhances the personal and professional development of mentees and mentors, boosts the reputation of host organizations and improves patient outcomes. Much of this success hinges upon the mentor’s ability to nurture personalized mentoring relationships and mentoring environments, provide effective feedback and render timely, responsive, appropriate, and personalized support. However, mentors are often untrained raising concerns about the quality and oversight of mentoring support. To promote effective and consistent use of mentor training in medical education, this scoping review asks what mentor training programs are available in undergraduate and postgraduate medicine and how they may inform the creation of an evidenced-based framework for mentor training. Six reviewers adopted Arksey and O’Malley’s approach to scoping reviews to study prevailing mentor-training programs and guidelines in postgraduate education programs and in medical schools. The focus was on novice mentoring approaches. Six reviewers carried out independent searches with similar inclusion/exclusion criteria using PubMed, ERIC, EMBASE, SCOPUS, Google Scholar, and grey literature databases. Included were theses and book chapters published in English or had English translations published between 1 January 1990 and 31 December 2017. Braun and Clarke’s approach to thematic analysis was adopted to circumnavigate mentoring’s and mentor training’s evolving, context-specific, goal-sensitive, learner-, tutor- and relationally dependent nature that prevents simple comparisons of mentor training across different settings and mentee and mentor populations. In total, 3585 abstracts were retrieved, 232 full-text articles were reviewed, 68 articles were included and four themes were identified including the structure, content, outcomes and evaluation of mentor training program. The themes identified provide the basis for an evidence-based, practice-guided framework for a longitudinal mentor training program in medicine and identifies the essential topics to be covered in mentor training programs.
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spelling doaj.art-3c8d89f1a76e46a6bcdaa050fad7f5d12022-12-21T19:49:46ZengTaylor & Francis GroupMedical Education Online1087-29812019-01-0124110.1080/10872981.2018.15554351555435A scoping review of mentor training programs in medicine between 1990 and 2017Krish Sheri0Jue Ying Joan Too1Sing En Lydia Chuah2Ying Pin Toh3Stephen Mason4Lalit Kumar Radha Krishna5National University of SingaporeNational University of SingaporeNational University of SingaporeNational University of SingaporeUniversity of Liverpool, Marie Curie Palliative Care InstituteNational University of SingaporeEffective mentoring enhances the personal and professional development of mentees and mentors, boosts the reputation of host organizations and improves patient outcomes. Much of this success hinges upon the mentor’s ability to nurture personalized mentoring relationships and mentoring environments, provide effective feedback and render timely, responsive, appropriate, and personalized support. However, mentors are often untrained raising concerns about the quality and oversight of mentoring support. To promote effective and consistent use of mentor training in medical education, this scoping review asks what mentor training programs are available in undergraduate and postgraduate medicine and how they may inform the creation of an evidenced-based framework for mentor training. Six reviewers adopted Arksey and O’Malley’s approach to scoping reviews to study prevailing mentor-training programs and guidelines in postgraduate education programs and in medical schools. The focus was on novice mentoring approaches. Six reviewers carried out independent searches with similar inclusion/exclusion criteria using PubMed, ERIC, EMBASE, SCOPUS, Google Scholar, and grey literature databases. Included were theses and book chapters published in English or had English translations published between 1 January 1990 and 31 December 2017. Braun and Clarke’s approach to thematic analysis was adopted to circumnavigate mentoring’s and mentor training’s evolving, context-specific, goal-sensitive, learner-, tutor- and relationally dependent nature that prevents simple comparisons of mentor training across different settings and mentee and mentor populations. In total, 3585 abstracts were retrieved, 232 full-text articles were reviewed, 68 articles were included and four themes were identified including the structure, content, outcomes and evaluation of mentor training program. The themes identified provide the basis for an evidence-based, practice-guided framework for a longitudinal mentor training program in medicine and identifies the essential topics to be covered in mentor training programs.http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10872981.2018.1555435mentormentor trainingmedical educationmentoring frameworkundergraduate mentoringpostgraduate mentoring
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A scoping review of mentor training programs in medicine between 1990 and 2017
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title A scoping review of mentor training programs in medicine between 1990 and 2017
title_full A scoping review of mentor training programs in medicine between 1990 and 2017
title_fullStr A scoping review of mentor training programs in medicine between 1990 and 2017
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title_short A scoping review of mentor training programs in medicine between 1990 and 2017
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mentoring framework
undergraduate mentoring
postgraduate mentoring
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