The fragility of youth-adult mentoring relationships requires innovative program components to support and sustain these relationships and enhance participant outcomes. The current study presents and explores the experience of a unique mentoring program component known as Mentor Families, in which three to four pairs of mentors and mentees engage in structured activities together. Grounded theo...

Applying a modified-Delphi technique, this research study sought consensus from business education mentor teachers regarding the top three areas in which business education student teachers were prepared as well as underprepared for their roles as teachers. Further, the mentor teachers provided recommendations for business education teacher preparation programs to implement to better prepare th...

Attrition in the public health nursing work force combined with a lack of faculty to teach public health prompted development of a "long-distance" learning project. Practicing associate degree nurses enrolled in an online course in population-based practice worked with experienced public health nurse "e-mentors." Student-mentor pairs worked through course assignments, shared public health nursi...

OBJECTIVES A fellowship training model in laparoscopic urological surgery has been established for interested urologists to help them proceed from the pelvic trainer/animal laboratory environment to safe clinical practice. The objective of the model is to provide trainees with clinical experience under direct mentor supervision before embarking on independent laparoscopic urological surgery at ...

Theory Academic mentoring is an effective method of enhancing undergraduate medical student academic performance, research productivity, career planning, and overall satisfaction. Hypotheses This study investigates the relationship between mentor characteristics and mentee academic performance, with an emphasis on identifying students who need special support. Methods A cross-sectional stud...

All student nurses are allocated clinical placements throughout their three year course, in which to develop their practical skills. Whilst in practice, they are supported by a designated mentor, who is the student’s identified lead for educational support. In this context, mentor support is provided by practitioners, who have undertaken an approved mentor preparation programme, approved by the...

Pick the Right Mentor Selecting a mentor can be difficult. While some lucky fellows find that their first attending on the inpatient service is the best mentor imaginable, most people have to put some time into searching for a good fit. Importantly, good mentors do not have to be in your specialty nor do they have to have the same interests, but they should have qualities that you aspire to. Fi...

MEntoR is a source code analysis tool that is integrated into the development environment (IDE) to suggest implementation improvements. MEntoR is a front-end for Prospector. Prospector extracts properties of source code entities of an application, and calculates association rules which indicate which properties tend to occur together. The purpose of MEntoR is to identify missing properties in t...

We studied mentoring relationships between undergraduate and graduate students in a summer undergraduate research program, over three years. Using a grounded theory approach, we created a model of research mentoring that describes how the roles of the mentor and the student can change. Whereas previous models of research mentoring ignored student roles and treated mentor roles as static, our mo...