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Mentorship in Academic Medicine

ISBN: 978-1-118-44602-7

December 2013

BMJ Books

176 pages

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Description

Mentorship in Academic Medicine is an evidence-based guide for establishing and maintaining successful mentoring relationships for both mentors and mentees.

Drawing upon the existing evidence-base on academic mentoring in medicine and the health sciences, it applies a case-stimulus learning approach to the common challenges and opportunities in mentorship in academic medicine. Each chapter begins with cases that take the reader into the evidence around specific issues in mentorship and provides actionable messages and recommendations for both correcting and preventing the problems presented in the cases. 

Accompanying the text is an interactive, online learning resource on mentorship. This e-tool provides updated resources for mentors and mentees, including video clips and podcasts with effective mentors who share their mentorship tips and strategies for effective mentorship. It also provides updated departmental and institutional strategies for establishing, running, and evaluating effective mentoring programs.

Mentorship in Academic Medicine
provides useful strategies and tactics for overcoming the common problems and flaws in mentoring programs and fostering productive and successful mentoring relationships and is a valuable guide for both mentors and mentees.

About the Author

Sharon E. Straus
Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute
St. Michael’s Hospital
and
Department of Medicine
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario, Canada 

David Sackett
Professor Emeritus
Clinical Epidemiology and Statistics
McMaster University
120 Main Street West
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Dr Straus is a geriatrician/general internist/clinical epidemiologist who was awarded a Canada Research Chair in Knowledge Translation. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto and Director of the Knowledge Translation Program which is a joint initiative of the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute at St. Michael’s Hospital and the University of Toronto.

Dr Sackett has had a long career at the forefront of evidence-based medicine and was the founding Director of the Oxford Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine. He has researched and written widely on both mentoring and the use of evidence to improve the quality of health care.