We designed a questionnaire to assess key characteristics of mentoring programs, participating mentors, mentees and their relationships (See Appendices 1 & 2 for instructions to participants and the survey questionnaire).
The review has therefore gone some way to linking the characteristics of mentoring as a strategy for addressing the social determinants of health through social inclusion, engagement and empowerment and provides a significant contribution to the public health literature.
The intended characteristics of mentoring relationships within the programs were described as personal (5 programs, 23%, see Table 1), early in the career of mentees (4 programs, 18%), on a regular basis (2 programs, 9%) and long-lasting (1 program, 5%).
We developed a questionnaire to assess key characteristics of mentoring programs: the advocated mentoring model, the number of participating mentees and mentors, funding and staff, and characteristics of mentees and mentors (e.g., level of training).
This principle leads to a major characteristic of mentoring: It entails supporting significantly, financially and otherwise, and challenging adequately.
To our knowledge, our survey instrument represents the first detailed questionnaire developed for a cross-sectional study of mentoring programs covering key characteristics of formal mentoring programs.
To determine the characteristics of Family Medicine mentors' care and teaching work.
This systematic review reports on the state of evidence on mentoring for Indigenous Australians by identifying the quantity, nature, quality and characteristics of mentoring publications.
To establish characteristics of successful mentoring programs, it would be necessary to correlate the structures of various mentoring programs with their outcome.
This addresses an identified need to describe mentoring programs in terms of the nature of mentoring relationships, not just the availability of programs, paying attention to the characteristics of both the mentors and mentees (Crisp and Cruz 2009; Gershenfeld 2014; Jacobi 1991).
This causes us to consider: what are the characteristics of a successful mentor?
