Twelve tips for organising speed mentoring events for healthcare professionals at small or large-scale venues.

Publication Date

2020

Journal Title

Medical teacher

Abstract

Mentors play a critical role in the development of professionals, influencing their job satisfaction, career aspirations and evolving professional identity. A variety of mentoring models exist, each with distinct benefits and challenges. Speed mentoring, based on the concept of speed dating, provides mentees with opportunities to meet multiple mentors over a short time and pose focussed career development questions. At large-scale events such as the annual AMEE (Association for Medical Education in Europe) meeting, speed mentoring sessions can successfully connect aspiring, novice and mid-career educators with international educational leaders to facilitate transfer of valuable insights for professional growth. For some mentors and mentees, this might spur ongoing communications or even longitudinal relationships. In this paper, we aim to provide strategies for planning and implementing speed mentoring events, combining insights gained from the literature and our experience of organising speed mentoring at the 2019 AMEE meeting in Vienna. These tips will be useful to a variety of professionals planning to organise speed mentoring initiatives.

Pages

1-8

Document Type

Article

Status

Faculty

Facility

School of Medicine

Primary Department

Science Education

Additional Departments

Occupational Medicine, Epidemiology and Prevention; Family Medicine

PMID

32208943

DOI

10.1080/0142159X.2020.1737323

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