Mentoring as a complex adaptive system - a systematic scoping review of prevailing mentoring theories in medical education.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Effective mentorship is an important component of medical education with benefits to all stakeholders. In recent years, conceptualization of mentorship has gone beyond the traditional dyadic experienced mentor-novice mentee relationship to include group and peer mentoring. Existing theories of mentorship do not recognize mentoring's personalized, evolving, goal-driven, and context-specific nature. Evidencing the limitations of traditional cause-and-effect concepts, the purpose of this review was to systematically search the literature to determine if mentoring can be viewed as a complex adaptive system (CAS).

Methods

A systematic scoping review using Krishna's Systematic Evidence-Based Approach was employed to study medical student and resident accounts of mentori

SUBMITTER: Teo MYK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11225364 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature