Formal mentoring programs continue to gain popularity within organizations despite limited empirical research regarding how these programs should be designed to achieve maximum effectiveness. The present study examined perceived design features of formal mentoring programs and outcomes from both mentor and protégé perspectives. The outcomes examined were career and psychosocial mentoring, role ...

Mentoring is enriching for both the mentor and mentee, but often getting started can be a primary obstacle to this useful tool. This contribution focuses on how to embark on a mentoring relationship with a junior colleague. In addition to describing various approaches to being a mentor, it outlines unproductive traps to avoid, steps to establishing a successful mentoring relationship, including...

OBJECTIVE To explore the nature, role and utility of mentoring in the development of competence in advanced-level Australian public health nutritionists. DESIGN Qualitative study using in-depth interviews. SUBJECTS AND SETTING Eighteen advanced-level public health nutritionists working in academic and practice settings in Australia. RESULTS The attributes and career pathways of the subjec...

In recent decades, mentoring has been identiŽ ed as an important learning activity in a variety of contexts such as business corporations, schools, universities and hospitals. In this review of 151 articles relating to business mentoring, an endeavour has been made to clarify the positive and negative outcomes of mentoring programs for mentors, mentees and business organisations. Although there...

Mentoring is a time-honored method for learning in graduate education and professional development. Mentoring is a symbiotic relationship between a mentor protégé pair who assist each other to meet mutual career objectives. Close mentor-protégé relationships often play a critical role in the lives of successful individuals in academia and business. Effective mentoring is an intentional activity...

PURPOSE This study evaluated the effectiveness of a 14-week mentoring program for first year nursing students and their ways of coping with stress and locus of control. METHODS The study was designed as a quasi-experimental study. Sixty-six first year students (mentees) and 66 fourth year students (mentors) were eligible to be in the mentoring program. Mentors and mentees contacted each other...

Palliative Medicine’s evolving multidimensional nature and accent upon maximising comfort and quality of life that “requires changing one’s conceptual model from disease and diagnosis to patient goals, prognosis and function” creates a unique challenge for medical educators and curriculum planners [1]. Mentoring has been proposed as a means of circumnavigating Palliative Medicine’s educational ...

On Being a Mentor focuses on the challenges and rewards of the faculty–student mentoring relationship in an academic setting. Johnson intends for this book to guide faculty interested in improving their mentoring and broadening their conceptions and repertoire of mentoring. It is also for students and junior faculty seeking positive mentorships and for administrators striving to create cultures...

High rates of retirement among older nurses and horizontal violence among younger nurses heighten the importance of mentoring in the context of overall organizational stability and performance. Viewing the essentials of mentoring in the context of organizational culture and leadership as a long-term commitment and solution rather than a short-term task will lead to improved staff retention, sat...

PURPOSE Mentoring is vital to professional development in the field of medicine, influencing career choice and faculty retention; thus, the authors reviewed mentoring programs for physicians and aimed to identify key components that contribute to these programs' success. METHOD The authors searched the MEDLINE, EMBASE, and Scopus databases for articles from January 2000 through May 2011 that ...