Making the most of your mentorship: Viewpoints from a mentor and mentee
| Autor: | Noah Goldfarb, Josh Tomczik, Ronda S. Farah, Sarah Karels, Maria K. Hordinsky |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Medical education
Disappointment business.industry Professional development MEDLINE Mentorship Dermatology Viewpoints Nature versus nurture Article 030207 dermatology & venereal diseases 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis Facilitator Mentor RL1-803 medicine Mentee medicine.symptom TUTOR business computer computer.programming_language |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Women's Dermatology, Vol 6, Iss 1, Pp 63-67 (2020) International Journal of Women's Dermatology |
| ISSN: | 2352-6475 |
| Popis: | The Oxford English Dictionary defines a mentor as a person who acts as guide and adviser to another person. The first reference to mentorship can be found in Greek mythology, when Odysseus asked the goddess Athena to nurture his son. She did this by disguising herself as a human and an old family friend by the name of Mentor. Much of medicine is characterized by definitions and specific criteria, yet mentorship remains less concrete. Failure to understand the qualities and expectations of a mentorship has the potential to greatly jeopardize success and careers and lead to disappointment for those involved in the mentorship (Zerzan et al., 2009). Within dermatology, the mentorship literature has grown rapidly over the last 10 years and further established mentoring as a valuable tool (Donovan, 2009, Kim et al., 2013, Maloney, 2012). The American Academy of Dermatology (AAD) describes a mentor as a “guide, tutor, facilitator, counselor and trusted advisor” (American Academy of Dermatology, 2018, McBurney, 2015). Program directors have found mentoring to be important for the professional development of dermatology residents (Donovan, 2009). Formal long-distance mentoring models have been proposed for those pursuing academic careers (Kim et al., 2013). Approaches to mentoring, traps, and the successes of such a relationship have also been described (McBurney, 2015). Herein, we seek to contribute to the dermatology mentorship literature with a unique viewpoint: that of a successful academic dermatology mentorship. We provide viewpoints from a mentor and mentee on making the most of your mentorship. |
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