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Mentorship in medical education: reflections on the importance of both unofficial and official mentorship programs
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Mentorship, consisting of its official and unofficial forms, transforms medical trainees into competent and well-rounded physicians. In this commentary, we reflected on existing mentorship programs at the McMaster School of Medicine, highlighted lessons from a new peer-based mentorship program, and revisited the benefits of integrating diverse mentorship styles to enhance medical education.
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Peer mentoring typically requires coordination of real-time in-person or online meetings, which may hinder timely access to support in clinical settings.
“peer mentoring typically requires coordination of real-time in-person or online meetings, which may hinder timely access to support in clinical settings [23].”
From Development of a Clinical Clerkship Mentor Using Generative AI and Evaluation of Its Effectiveness in a Medical Student Trial Compared to Student Mentors: 2-Part Comparative Study (2025) · cites this paper as [23]
The Reflections and lessons section says busy mentor and mentee schedules can make reaching out for unofficial mentorship challenging, and that official programs require administrative coordination. It does not say peer mentoring typically requires real-time in-person or online meetings, or that scheduling delays timely support in clinical settings. No page numbers are available in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.78)
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Metadata
- Authors
- Wu, J., & Olagunju, A. T.
- Affiliations
- McMaster University (CA)
- Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital, Calabar (NG)
- Corresponding author
- Olagunju, Andrew Toyin
- Venue
- BMC Medical Education
- Published
- 2024-10-29
- Volume
- 24
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 1233-1233
- ISSN
- 1472-6920 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC11523898
- OpenAlex
- W4403905426
- Cited by
- 27
- References
- 12
- Citations by year
- 2026: 14 · 2025: 13
- FWCI
- 12.78
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- BMC Medical Education (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Funders
- McMaster University
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Education › Mentoring and Academic Development
- Social Sciences › Education › Innovations in Medical Education
- Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Diversity and Career in Medicine
- Keywords
- mentoring, medical education, medical trainees
- MeSH terms
- Mentoring, Education, Medical, Humans, Mentors, Peer Group
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