BACKGROUND In the UK the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) standards to support learning and assessment in practice state that mentors are responsible and accountable for the assessment of pre-registration nursing students in practice. This study was undertaken to explore mentors' experience of assessing nursing students in practice post implementation of the NMC standards. METHOD Five focu...

In a global sense it is not difficult to agree that anyone wo contributes to the growth and development be it somatic, intellectual, educational or any other form is a mentor. There is no argument that the parents, teachers, coaches, special skill instructors and other similarly engaged individuals can collectively be viewed as mentors They probably instill more important formative traits than ...

“Dascălii mei” (“My mentors”) is a book of memoirs, which evokes different aspects of the education and remarkable teachers and professors, from kindergarten to university. The author – Prof. Dr. Sorin Nicu Blaga – proves, once again, his profound respect and admiration for his masters. It is useful to mention that the author's concern in the field of history and, particularly, in the medical h...

Emiria Soendjojo is a senior majoring in food science. As a sophomore in Dr. Lisa Mauer’s lab, she learned standard microbiological laboratory techniques and applied them to the analysis of fresh produce obtained from grocery stores and farmers’ markets. Following this research experience, Soendjojo worked with H. J. Heinz Company in Escalon, California, as a microbiologist intern on a spoilage...

This paper presents 23 mentors' perceptions of their role in a year-long mentorship program during the period 1999- 2002. The majority of mentors were clinical specialists, had bachelor degrees and over five years clinical experience. The mentorship program was informed by the Deming Cycle of Plan, Do, Check and Act. This quality improvement framework was used to evaluate the mentorship program...

INTRODUCTION All over the world, mentors are employed more and more for portfolio-based training modules in order to support the learner's learning- and reflection process.Within the final year of medical education, tertial internal medicine, the University Hospital of Erlangen, Department of Medicine 1 offered trainings for mentors.In the framework of the student's evaluation of this training ...

In this paper, we present a novel approach to scaffolding student participation and learning within discussion forums using student mentors, i.e., course peers with relatively good understanding of a particular domain topic. First, we identify mentors using domain topic models, student discussion profiles, and a similarity comparison of the topics being discussed. Second, we provide an interfac...

Existing online mentorship systems typically match mentors and mentees manually. Recommender systems can be used to match mentors and mentees and trust and reputation mechanisms can be used to improve the decision process. This paper discusses the state-of-the-art in online mentorship systems, recommender systems, and trust and reputation mechanisms. It further proposes a five-stage process for...

BACKGROUND Good mentoring is a key variable for determining success in completing a doctoral program. We identified prevailing mentoring practices among doctoral students and their mentors, identified common challenges facing doctoral training, and proposed some solutions to enhance the quality of the doctoral training experience for both candidates and mentors at Makerere University College of...

BACKGROUND Growing numbers of non-medical health professionals are attaining prescribing rights through post-registration non-medical prescribing (NMP) courses in the UK. However, not all implement prescribing post-qualification. This study evaluated the uptake and perceived usefulness of a mentoring scheme for two cohorts of NMP students at the University of Nottingham. The scheme paired stude...