Teaching Mentoring: Utilizing a Resident-Student Peer Mentorship Program as a Tool to Educate Residents About the Core Components of Mentoring

Mentorship plays a critical role in the career development of trainees in medicine. Previous formalized radiation oncology (RO) mentorship programs have led to increased satisfaction in mentor-mentee experiences and earlier development of preceptor skills in the mentee, such as higher promotion and grant acquisition rates.1 However, there is an observed lack of clinical mentorship in RO and limited formal education to teach residents how to become effective mentors.2,3 Common reasons for dissatisfaction in mentorship experiences among RO residents includes difficulty identifying a mentor, time commitment of a mentor, and inexperience of selected mentors.

Source: International Journal of Radiation Oncology * Biology * Physics - August 4, 2021 Category: Radiology Authors: Anurag Saraf, Matthew Gallitto, Idalid Franco, Michael Milligan, Subha Perni, Dalia Larios, Graham Boyd, Cheng-Chia Wu, Rachel Jimenez Source Type: research