Mentorship is increasingly recognised as a bidirectional process benefiting both mentors & mentees.

BURGESS ET AL. 2018

Why Be A Mentor?

The GMC states, in "Duties of A Doctor" that:

"You should be willing to take on a mentoring role for more junior doctors and healthcare professionals"

However, Mentors can gain a lot from the process themselves. Some possible benefits include:

• Satisfaction from seeing your Mentee develop
• ​An opportunity to share your knowledge and experience
• Developing your own communication, educational and leadership skills
• Enhancing your own work performance
• More self-awareness and insight
• A different perspective on your own practice
• Improved team moral and satisfaction in junior colleagues
• Confirmation of the value of your own knowledge and experience
• A new challenge

So what do you need to be a good Mentor?  We have created a person specification to give you an idea of the qualities need to be a Mentor that you can download here.  

Mentoring Masterclass

We have successfully delivered training to over 100 doctors within the deanery. We have creating a 30 minute video to summarise the workshop:

• What is Mentorship? - The basics of Mentoring
• Skills & Qualities - What are the skills and qualities needed?
• The Mentoring Relationship - What are the principles of the relationship?
• Pitfalls & Dilemmas - What can go wrong and how to prevent it.
• Models for Mentoring - Exploring different models for mentoring.
• Moving Forwards - Setting up a scheme and putting it into practice.