Value of Near-Peer Mentorship from Protégé and Mentor Perspectives: A Strategy to Increase Physician Workforce Diversity
| Autor: | Paula T. Ross, Gurjit Sandhu, Adrianne N. Haggins |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Students Medical Adolescent 020205 medical informatics media_common.quotation_subject 02 engineering and technology Young Adult 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Mentorship Nursing Physicians Health care Ethnicity ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Humans Medicine Narrative 030212 general & internal medicine Program Development Minority Groups media_common Medical education Schools Career Choice business.industry Mentors Professional development Cultural Diversity General Medicine Focus Groups Protégé Focus group United States Workforce Female Thematic analysis business Diversity (politics) |
| Zdroj: | Journal of the National Medical Association. 110:399-406 |
| ISSN: | 0027-9684 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jnma.2017.09.001 |
| Popis: | Purpose Mentorship is a critical aspect of personal and professional development in academic medicine and helps to improve career satisfaction, productivity, and social networking. However, individuals from communities underrepresented in medicine (URiM) across the training continuum experience difficulty obtaining mentors, even prior to college. The value of near-peer mentorship is less well studied in medicine relative to other fields. The purpose of this mixed methods study is to explore the mentorship experiences of high school student proteges and their medical student mentors, as well as provide a description of the key features of the Doctors of Tomorrow (DOT) program. Methods From November 2014 to September 2015, the authors used focus groups and critical incident narratives with 9th grade high school students as well as focus groups and semi-structured interviews with medical students to examine mentor-protege experiences in the Doctors of Tomorrow (DOT) program. In 2016, thirty-one medical student mentors were asked to complete an online survey about their mentor experiences. Focus group and interview data were audio-recorded and transcribed verbatim. All data were coded using thematic analysis and recurring codes were organized into categories, then compared, scrutinized and arranged into broader themes by all authors. Results The analysis of data from 70 medical students and 52 high school students revealed that mentors and proteges valued their mentor relationships based on regular in-person and electronic contact, shared common non-academic interests, and the anticipated prolonged nature of the relationship. Mentors also reported they initiated contact with their proteges every 2–3 weeks and monthly outside of program events, with email communication as the most common modality. Conclusions Near-peer relationships between high school and medical students may be an innovative strategy to promote health care careers, increase access to mentorship and develop meaningful mentorship relationships for URiM high school students. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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