It added that mentees can also benefit from coordinator-led training themselves, in order to manage expectations and let them know what they can bring to the scheme.
At the same time that mentees are engaged in the task of establishing their professional identities, they are often experiencing tremendous changes in their lives outside of work.
Those schemes that include male mentors are also highly successful and have the added benefit that mentees can view the differences in female and male attitudes toward career progression.
Once mentors were satisfied that mentees had acquired the recommended competencies, mentees were assessed by an external team.
Some mentors stated that departmental heads supported the mentorship process by providing flexible schedules so that mentees could practice their acquired skills.
In other words, role modeling functions focus on the fact that mentees would try to imitate the mentor's behavior because of their respect for and trust in the mentors.
For example, with respect to mentoring model, several participants recommended traditional one-on-one mentorship whereas others said that several individuals could be mentored concurrently so that mentees could learn from each other.
Further, all mentors should adhere to use of mentoring checklist in order to ensure that mentees are assessed on sequence of step in procedures that they may not have been trained on.
The 22 programs together had 5,843 medical students enrolled as mentees, or 6.9 to 7.4% of all German medical students [ 28] at the time the survey was completed (the range taking into account that mentees at the 2 universities offering 2 separate programs could partake in both).
