Assessing the effects of a mentoring program on professional identity formation

BMC Medical Education

Research

Jasmine Lerk Juan Owyong¹  Min Chiam¹  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  Chrystie Wan Ning Quek⁸  Sabine Lauren Chyi Hui Wong⁸  Victoria Wen Wei Ng⁸  Anushka Pisupati⁸  Vaishnavi Venktaramana⁸  Harpreet Singh⁸  Yun Ting Ong⁸  Vijayprasanth Raveendran⁸  Lalit Kumar Radha Krishna⁹ 

[1] Division of Cancer Education, National Cancer Centre Singapore, Singapore, Singapore;Division of Cancer Education, National Cancer Centre Singapore, Singapore, Singapore;Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore;Division of Medical Oncology, National Cancer Centre Singapore, Singapore, Singapore;Division of Oncology Pharmacy, National Cancer Centre Singapore, Singapore, Singapore;Division of Supportive and Palliative Care, National Cancer Centre Singapore, Singapore, Singapore;Division of Cancer Education, National Cancer Centre Singapore, Singapore, Singapore;Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore;Assisi Hospice, Singapore, Singapore;Office of Medical Humanities, SingHealth Medicine Academic Clinical Programme, Singapore, Singapore;Division of Supportive and Palliative Care, National Cancer Centre Singapore, Singapore, Singapore;Lien Centre for Palliative Care, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore;Health Data Science, University of Liverpool, 200 London Road, Liverpool, UK;Palliative Care Institute Liverpool, Cancer Research Centre, University of Liverpool, 200 London Rd, L3 9TA, Liverpool, UK;Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, 10 Medical Dr, Singapore, Singapore;Division of Supportive and Palliative Care, National Cancer Centre Singapore, Singapore, Singapore;Division of Cancer Education, National Cancer Centre Singapore, Singapore, Singapore;Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, 10 Medical Dr, Singapore, Singapore;Division of Supportive and Palliative Care, National Cancer Centre Singapore, Singapore, Singapore;Division of Cancer Education, National Cancer Centre Singapore, Singapore, Singapore;Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore;Lien Centre for Palliative Care, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore;Health Data Science, University of Liverpool, 200 London Road, Liverpool, UK;Palliative Care Institute Liverpool, Cancer Research Centre, University of Liverpool, 200 London Rd, L3 9TA, Liverpool, UK;The Palliative Care Centre for Excellence in Research and Education, PalC C/O Dover Park Hospice, 10 Jalan Tan Tock Seng, 308436, Singapore, Singapore;Centre for Biomedical Ethics, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore;

关键词: Professional identity formation;    Mentoring;    Medicine;    Professionalism;    Palliative medicine;    Assessment;    Community of practice;    Socialisation process;    Education environment;    Personhood;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s12909-023-04748-6

 received in 2023-02-20, accepted in 2023-10-04,  发布年份 2023

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundMedical education has enjoyed mixed fortunes nurturing professional identity formation (PIF), or how medical students think, feel and act as physicians. New data suggests that structured mentoring programs like the Palliative Medicine Initiative (PMI) may offer a means of developing PIF in a consistent manner. To better understand how a well-established structured research mentoring program shapes PIF, a study of the experiences of PMI mentees is proposed.MethodologyAcknowledging PIF as a sociocultural construct, a Constructivist approach and Relativist lens were adopted for this study. In the absence of an effective tool, the Ring Theory of Personhood (RToP) and Krishna-Pisupati Model (KPM) model were used to direct this dual Systematic Evidence-Based Approach (Dual-SEBA) study in designing, employing and analysing semi-structured interviews with PMI mentees and mentoring diaries. These served to capture changes in PIF over the course of the PMI’s mentoring stages.Transcripts of the interviews and mentoring diaries were concurrently analysed using content and thematic analysis. Complementary themes and categories identified from the Split Approach were combined using the Jigsaw Approach and subsequently compared with mentoring diaries in the Funnelling Process. The domains created framed the discussion.ResultsA total of 12 mentee interviews and 17 mentoring diaries were analysed, revealing two domains—PMI as a Community of Practice (CoP) and Identity Formation. The domains confirmed the centrality of a structured CoP capable of facilitating longitudinal mentoring support and supporting the Socialisation Process along the mentoring trajectory whilst cultivating personalised and enduring mentoring relationships.ConclusionThe provision of a consistent mentoring approach and personalised, longitudinal mentoring support guided along the mentoring trajectory by structured mentoring assessments lay the foundations for more effective mentoring programs. The onus must now be on developing assessment tools, such as a KPM-based tool, to guide support and oversight of mentoring relationships.

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