One-on-one mentoring for final year medical students during the neurosurgery rotation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Medical students show varying clinical practical skills when entering their final year clinical clerkship, which is the final period to acquire and improve practical skills prior to their residency. We developed a one-on-one mentoring program to allow individually tailored teaching of clinical practical skills to support final year students with varying skill sets during their neurosurgical clinical clerkship.

Methods

Each participating student (n = 23) was paired with a mentor. At the beginning students were asked about their expectations, teaching preferences and surgical interest. Regular meetings and evaluations of clinical practical skills were scheduled every 2 weeks together with fixed rotations that could be individually adjusted. The one-on-one meetings a

SUBMITTER: Behling F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8061075 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature