Affiliation:
1. Faculty of Medicine Department of Surgery, King Abdulaziz Unveristy Jeddah Saudi Arabia
2. Department of Surgery University of Toronto Toronto Ontario Canada
Abstract
AbstractObjectiveThe objective is to explore the processes contributing to how and why mentors and mentees initiate, maintain and grow in their mentorship relationships in surgery.BackgroundTo explore the processes contributing to how and why mentors and mentees initiate, maintain and grow their mentorship relationships in surgery. Evidence suggests that mentorship has a positive impact on physicians' success. Consequently, mentorship programmes have been incorporated into many medicine environments, albeit with variable success.MethodsWe designed an interview‐based study using a constructivist grounded theory approach to explore the dynamics of mentorship between junior and experienced surgeons. Recruited mentees were asked to nominate a senior surgeon they identified as a mentor. Both mentee and mentors were then interviewed separately. Transcripts were analysed using constant comparison to a create a final coding framework and to generate themes.ResultsWe interviewed nine faculty mentors and 10 junior faculty mentees. Our analysis identified key themes describing how to initiate, maintain and grow a mentorship relationship. Mentorship starts with ensuring a ‘good fit’, persists through satisfying a reciprocal loop with timely communication and deepens the relationship through cycles of mutual investment, learning, and success. Participants also discussed how to navigate through tensions to avoid relationship breakdown, balancing formality and friendship, knowing when to transition a relationship to a new dynamic and finding areas of realistic contribution.ConclusionsWe found that successful mentorship relationships are viewed as dynamic and thus require active investment and shared responsibility between mentees and mentors. Our results also emphasise the value of co‐regulation in the relationship, where cycles of mutual investment can contribute to mutual learning and growth.
Subject
Education,General Medicine
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1. Tips for early career academic surgeons;The American Journal of Surgery;2024-01