What makes mentors thrive? An exploratory study of their satisfaction in undergraduate medical education ...
Abstract Background Mentoring medical students with varied backgrounds and individual needs can be challenging. Mentors’ satisfaction is likely to be important for the quality and sustainability of mentorships, especially in programs where the mentor has responsibility for facilitating a group of me...
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2024
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| Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.7166052 https://springernature.figshare.com/collections/What_makes_mentors_thrive_An_exploratory_study_of_their_satisfaction_in_undergraduate_medical_education/7166052 |
| Summary: | Abstract Background Mentoring medical students with varied backgrounds and individual needs can be challenging. Mentors’ satisfaction is likely to be important for the quality and sustainability of mentorships, especially in programs where the mentor has responsibility for facilitating a group of mentees. However, little is known about what influences mentors’ satisfaction. The aim of this study was to measure mentors’ self-reported satisfaction with the mentoring experience and to explore associations between satisfaction and its putative factors. Methods An online survey was sent out to all physician mentors in each of the three mentorship programs (UiT The Arctic University of Norway, the University of Bergen, and McGill University, graduation years 2013–2020, n = 461). Data were analyzed by descriptive statistics, dimension reduction, and linear regression. Results On a scale from 1 to 5, mean mentor satisfaction score at two Norwegian and one Canadian medical school was 4.55 (95% CI 4.47, 4.64). In a ... |
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