Mentoring Medical Students Towards Oncology: Results from a Pilot Multi-institutional Mentorship Programme.

ABSTRACT: The mounting global cancer burden has generated an increasing demand for oncologists to join the workforce. Yet, students report limited oncology exposure in undergraduate medical curricula, while undergraduate oncology mentorships remain underutilised. We established an undergraduate oncology society-led mentorship programme aimed at medical students across several UK universities to increase medical student oncology exposure. We electronically recruited and paired oncologist mentors and medical student mentees and distributed a dedicated questionnaire (pre- and post-mentorship) to compare mentees' self-reported cancer specialty knowledge and oncology career motivation after undertaking a 6-week mentorship. We also determined students' interest across specialties and subspecialties and me

SUBMITTER: Rallis KS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7688447 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature