In this issue of the Journal of Graduate Medical Education, Welch et al1 describe a
mentoring program for female residents and faculty in an academic emergency medicine …

Background: The University of Washington School of Medicine implemented an assigned
mentoring program in 2002. The College Mentors are assigned at matriculation, advise …

There is a huge need for supportive mentoring among students, doctors in training and
general practitioners. Mentoring is an effective way of supporting doctors and preventing …

Objective: The elective subject “career management for medical students” is presented as
an example of teaching gender sensitivity issues among medical studies at Leipzig …

Background Student mentoring is an important aspect of undergraduate medical education.
While medical schools often assign faculty advisors to medical students as mentors to …

Background Worldwide, many undergraduate general practice curricula include community-
based courses at general practitioners'(GPs') offices. Usually the academic general practice …

Study leave is an important element supporting training of junior doctors (Gold Guide 2010).
Traditionally held and managed by the hospitals that employ doctors, the Severn Deanery in …

19 sources, both human and material, were scarce. From the start, our principal objective
was to approach European standards; anything less did not make much sense. At the time …

Background: There is increasing evidence of the positive effects of mentoring in medical
undergraduate programmes, but as far as we know, no studies on the effects for the mentors …

Introduction: To better prepare young medical students in a thorough and competent manner
for the ever increasing clinical, scientific, as well as psychosocial requirements, universities …