The article by Stamm and Buddeberg-Fischer1 underscores the importance of mentors in
medical education. These researchers followed a cohort of Germanspeaking Swiss resident …

Introduction Mentorship provides general career guidance in academic medicine.
Sponsorship advocates for a sponsee by endorsing this person for a position or role …

Background Current mentorship programmes in the UK tend to focus predominantly on
junior medical students; however, final‐year medical students may encounter significant …

Summary Background The West Yorkshire Mentoring Scheme (WYMS) was created to
provide a framework for clinical supervision, teaching and support by foundation year (FY) …

History of'mentoring'is almost as old as the man himself. However, the word'mentor'has its
origin from the Greek mythology where Odysseus (Ulysses in Latin), entrusted his friend …

Objective To study medical students' views and experiences of the benefits and influences
regarding a mentoring programme aimed at preparing them for future practice as a doctor …

In this paper we present our 5-year-experience with a large-scale mentoring program for
undergraduate medical students at the Ludwig Maximilians-Universität Munich (LMU). We …

Background Mentoring has been employed in medical education in recent years, but there is
extensive variation in the published literature concerning the goals of mentoring and the role …

In 1998, the University of Alberta's Department of Medicine developed a mandatory
mentorship programme for all junior faculty staff in their first academic appointment …

The author discuss how they developed a" speed mentoring" program at the University
Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf in Germany, designed to better match medical students …