Mentorship in Medicine

The art of mentoring is not new in the medical profession considering that the medical practice is actually a type of apprenticeship. However, this has been mostly informal. In essence, all medical doctors have undergone some sort of mentoring or another. In view of the immense benefits of formal mentoring seen in other organizations in recent times, there is a need to institute formal mentoring programmes in the medical profession all over the world. This book is about mentoring as it applies to the medical profession. The emphasis is on the benefits, types of mentors and the challenges. It also gives a guide for commencement to institutions who have no formal mentoring programmes.