Professional identity formation amongst peer-mentors in a research-based mentoring programme

BMC Medical Education

Research

Jasmine Lerk Juan Owyong¹  Simon Yew Kuang Ong²  Ting Ting Yeoh³  Eng Koon Ong⁴  Gillian Li Gek Phua⁵  Ruaraidh Hill⁶  Stephen Mason⁷  Eleanor Kei Ying Loh⁸  Kelly Jia Hui Teo⁸  Keith Zi Yuan Chua⁸  Mac Yu Kai Teo⁸  Ong Yun Ting⁸  Sabine Lauren Wong Chyi Hui⁸  Chrystie Wan Ning Quek⁸  Victoria Wen Wei Ng⁸  Anushka Pisupati⁸  Vaishnavi Venktaramana⁸  Harpreet Singh⁸  Vijayprasanth Raveendran⁸  Lalit Kumar Radha Krishna⁹ 

[1] Division of Cancer Education, National Cancer Centre Singapore, 30 Hospital Boulevard, 168583, Singapore, Singapore;Division of Cancer Education, National Cancer Centre Singapore, 30 Hospital Boulevard, 168583, Singapore, Singapore;Duke-NUS Medical School, 8 College Road, 169857, Singapore, Singapore;Division of Medical Oncology, National Cancer Centre Singapore, 30 Hospital Boulevard, 168583, Singapore, Singapore;Division of Oncology Pharmacy, National Cancer Centre Singapore, 30 Hospital Boulevard, 168583, Singapore, Singapore;Division of Supportive and Palliative Care, National Cancer Centre Singapore, 30 Hospital Boulevard, 168583, Singapore, Singapore;Division of Cancer Education, National Cancer Centre Singapore, 30 Hospital Boulevard, 168583, Singapore, Singapore;Duke-NUS Medical School, 8 College Road, 169857, Singapore, Singapore;Assisi Hospice, 832 Thomson Rd, 574627, Singapore, Singapore;Office of Medical Humanities, SingHealth Medicine Academic Clinical Programme, Singapore, Singapore;Division of Supportive and Palliative Care, National Cancer Centre Singapore, 30 Hospital Boulevard, 168583, Singapore, Singapore;Lien Centre for Palliative Care, Duke-NUS Medical School, 169857, Singapore, Singapore;Health Data Science, Institute of Population Health, University of Liverpool, Brownlow Street, L69 3GF, Liverpool, UK;Palliative Care Institute, University of Liverpool, 200 London Road, L3 9TA, Liverpool, UK;Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, NUHS Tower Block, 1E Kent Ridge Road, 119228, Singapore, Singapore;Division of Supportive and Palliative Care, National Cancer Centre Singapore, 30 Hospital Boulevard, 168583, Singapore, Singapore;Division of Cancer Education, National Cancer Centre Singapore, 30 Hospital Boulevard, 168583, Singapore, Singapore;Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, NUHS Tower Block, 1E Kent Ridge Road, 119228, Singapore, Singapore;Division of Supportive and Palliative Care, National Cancer Centre Singapore, 30 Hospital Boulevard, 168583, Singapore, Singapore;Division of Cancer Education, National Cancer Centre Singapore, 30 Hospital Boulevard, 168583, Singapore, Singapore;Duke-NUS Medical School, 8 College Road, 169857, Singapore, Singapore;Lien Centre for Palliative Care, Duke-NUS Medical School, 169857, Singapore, Singapore;Health Data Science, Institute of Population Health, University of Liverpool, Brownlow Street, L69 3GF, Liverpool, UK;Palliative Care Institute, University of Liverpool, 200 London Road, L3 9TA, Liverpool, UK;The Palliative Care Centre for Excellence in Research and Education (PalC), Dover Park Hospice, 10 Jln Tan Tock Seng, 308436, Singapore, Singapore;Centre for Biomedical Ethics, National University of Singapore, 10 Medical Dr, 117597, Singapore, Singapore;

关键词: Community of practice;    Medical students;    Medicine;    Mentoring;    Professional identity formation;    Physicians;    Peer mentoring;    Socialization;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s12909-023-04718-y

 received in 2023-01-09, accepted in 2023-09-25,  发布年份 2023

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundMentoring plays a pivotal yet poorly understood role in shaping a physician’s professional identity formation (PIF) or how they see, feel and act as professionals. New theories posit that mentoring nurtures PIF by functioning as a community of practice through its structured approach and its support of a socialisation process made possible by its assessment-directed personalized support. To test this theory and reshape the design, employ and support of mentoring programs, we evaluate peer-mentor experiences within the Palliative Medicine Initiative’s structured research mentoring program.MethodsSemi-structured interviews with peer mentors under the Palliative Medicine Initiative (PMI) at National Cancer Centre Singapore were conducted and triangulated against mentoring diaries to capture longitudinal data of their PMI experiences. The Systematic Evidence-Based Approach (SEBA) was adopted to enhance the trustworthiness of the data. SEBA employed concurrent content and thematic analysis of the data to ensure a comprehensive review. The Jigsaw Perspective merged complementary themes and categories identified to create themes/categories. The themes/categories were compared with prevailing studies on mentoring in the Funnelling Process to reaffirm their accuracy.ResultsTwelve peer-mentors participated in the interviews and eight peer-mentors completed the mentoring diaries. The domains identified were community of practice and identity work.ConclusionsThe PMI’s structured mentoring program functions as a community of practice supporting the socialisation process which shapes the peer-mentor’s belief system. Guided by a structured mentoring approach, stage-based assessments, and longitudinal mentoring and peer support, peer-mentors enhance their detection and evaluation of threats to their regnant belief system and adapt their self-concepts of identity and personhood to suit their context. These insights will help structure and support mentoring programs as they nurture PIF beyond Palliative Medicine.

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