Mentors are...
- "...influential people who significantly help you reach major life goals"
- Phillips-Jones
- Emotional and psychological support
- Direction assistance with career and professional development
- Role modelling
Useful extra skills:
- Time management
- Stress management
Mentoring - East Anglia Faculty
Notes from a course run in 1997 at Cambridge:
- Issues which may be raised during mentoring
- Ethical issues
- What a mentor should not do
- What mentoring can do for mentee
- Educational aspects of mentoring
- Listening
- Elements of a good action plan: SMART with support
- Guidelines for how to work as co-tutors
- Giving constructive feedback
- Developmental cycle
- Developmental interviewing
Links
- Co-tutoring
- Mentoring---supporting doctors at work and play Caron Grainger BMJ 2002;324 203