Combining Support and Assessment in Health Professions Education: Mentors' and Mentees' Experiences in a Programmatic Assessment Context.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Mentors in programmatic assessment support mentees with low-stakes feedback, which often also serves as input for high-stakes decision making. That process potentially causes tensions in the mentor-mentee relationship. This study explored how undergraduate mentors and mentees in health professions education experience combining developmental support and assessment, and what this means for their relationship.

Methods

The authors chose a pragmatic qualitative research approach and conducted semi-structured vignette-based interviews with 24 mentors and 11 mentees that included learners from medicine and the biomedical sciences. Data were analyzed thematically.

Results

How participants combined developmental support and assessment varied. In some mentor-mente

SUBMITTER: Loosveld LM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10327863 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature