Mentoring stages: A study of undergraduate mentoring in palliative medicine in Singapore.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Mentoring nurtures a mentee's personal and professional development. Yet conflation of mentoring approaches and a failure to contend with mentoring's nature makes it difficult to study mentoring processes and relationships. This study aims to understand of mentee experiences in the Palliative Medicine Initiative (PMI). The PMI uses a consistent mentoring approach amongst a homogeneous mentee population offers a unique opportunity to circumnavigate conflation of practices and the limitations posed by mentoring's nature. The data will advance understanding of mentoring processes.

Methods

Sixteen mentees discussed their PMI experiences in individual face-to-face audio-recorded interviews. The two themes identified from thematic analysis of interview transcripts were

SUBMITTER: Krishna L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6481808 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature