Understanding mentoring relationships between mentees, peer and senior mentors.

Venktaramana, Vaishnavi, Ong, Yun Ting, Yeo, Jun Wei, Pisupati, Anushka and Krishna, Lalit Kumar Radha ORCID: 0000-0002-7350-8644 (2023) Understanding mentoring relationships between mentees, peer and senior mentors. BMC medical education, 23 (1). 76-.

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12909-023-04021-w

Abstract

<h4>Background</h4>Mentoring relationships play a critical but poorly understood role in mentoring's overall success. To overcome these knowledge gaps, a study of mentee experiences in the Palliative Medicine Initiative, a structured research-based mentoring program, is proposed. The program's clearly described mentoring approach, competency-based mentoring stages and curated mentoring environment ensure a consistent mentoring experience. It provides a unique platform to study mentoring relationships longitudinally and its implications on professional identity formation.<h4>Methodology</h4>The Tool Design Systematic Evidence-Based Approach methodology is used to map and employ current understanding. A review of recent reviews on mentoring processes, mentoring's effects, professional identity formation and professional identity formation assessment tools lay the foundation for the design of semi-structured interviews and mentoring diaries to evaluate the characteristics of successful mentoring relationships and mentoring's impact on professional identity formation. The data accrued from these tools were evaluated using this methodology whilst changes in professional identity formation were assessed using the Ring Theory of Personhood.<h4>Results</h4>The semi-structured interviews revealed four themes: stakeholders, mentoring stages, mentoring relationships and professional identity formation whilst the mentoring diaries revealed two: mentoring processes and mentoring relationships. Two final domains emerged - mentoring relationships and professional identity formation.<h4>Conclusions</h4>The Palliative Medicine Initiative's structured stage-based mentoring approach, trained stakeholders, curated environment, assessment-directed and personalized mentoring support reveal seven developmental stages of mentoring relationships. These culminate in changes to the values, beliefs and principles that shape how mentees see, feel and act as professionals. These findings suggest that mentoring programs may help to further develop and fine-tune their professional identity formation.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Humans, Peer Group, Mentors, Mentoring
Divisions:	Faculty of Health and Life Sciences
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	06 Mar 2023 09:33
Last Modified:	18 Mar 2024 03:29
DOI:	10.1186/s12909-023-04021-w
Open Access URL:	https://doi.org/10.1186/s12909-023-04021-w
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URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3168776