Adaptations to mentoring and peer mentor training at the medical faculty during the COVID-19 pandemic.
GMS J Med Educ
; 38(1): Doc8, 2021.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1110229
ABSTRACT
Objectives:
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to major adjustments in health care systems and significantly affected medical education. Accordingly, our mentoring program MeCuM-Mentor had to expand its virtual elements, in order to continue to meet the needs for mentoring at the medical faculty of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich.Methods:
Here we report on our recently implemented online formats to facilitate training for currently coached peer mentors, as well as the introduction of an online consultation hour and a new social mentoring event called PubQuiz.Results:
First results demonstrated feasibility of the above-mentioned virtual formats, which were positively rated by the participants in small voluntary evaluation questionnaires. Utilization rates indicate existing need for mentoring during the pandemic. In addition, the new event PubQuiz promotes social interaction among peers during isolation due to COVID-19.Conclusion:
With the transition to online formats, mentoring at the Medical Faculty could be continued during COVID-19. The newly introduced mentoring event PubQuiz will be repeated. However, it remains unclear to what extent online formats can replace in-person one-to-one mentoring conversations or peer mentoring meetings.Keywords
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Collection:
International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Peer Group
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Education, Medical
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Faculty, Medical
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Mentoring
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COVID-19
Type of study:
Experimental Studies
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Observational study
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Randomized controlled trials
Limits:
Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
GMS J Med Educ
Year:
2021
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Zma001404
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