Restructuring career counselling ventures of a mentoring program for medical students in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic.
GMS J Med Educ
; 37(7): Doc73, 2020.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-966742
ABSTRACT
Objectives:
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, medical curricula face major challenges. This also applies to mentoring programs, where face-to-face meetings are considered essential.Methods:
The LMU Munich medical faculty mentoring program (MeCuM-Mentor) adapted to counteract the unforeseen pause of conventional course formats and associated uncertainty of many students. We here present an approach to transform the established large scale or group mentoring events of our program into online formats. Three projects are presented as examples 1. HowTo Klink (HK), mainly informative in nature and with peer-mentoring character, 2. FacharztDuell (FAD) and 3. "Auf ein Gespräch mit... (AEGM)", both with a focus on career counseling.Results:
Initial evaluations show a similarly high participation rate and a high level of satisfaction among the participating students. Students' evaluation of whether the projects presented should take place in presence or in online format has so far shown no clear trend.Conclusion:
Prospective studies are necessary to investigate the effectiveness of these online formats and analyse differences in participant behaviour. The extent to which online mentoring can replace classic mentoring functions has to be discussed anew.Keywords
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International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Students, Medical
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Vocational Guidance
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Faculty, Medical
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Mentoring
Type of study:
Cohort study
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Experimental Studies
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Observational study
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Prognostic study
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Randomized controlled trials
Limits:
Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
GMS J Med Educ
Year:
2020
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Zma001366
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