Adaptations to mentoring and peer mentor training at the medical faculty during the COVID-19 pandemic

Objectives: The COVID-19 pandemic has led to major adjustments in health care systems and significantly affected medical education. Accordingly, our mentoring program had to expand its virtual elements, in order to continue to meet the needs for mentoring at the medical faculty of the .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 .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 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 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..

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:38

Enthalten in:

GMS Journal for Medical Education - 38(2021), 1, p Doc8

Sprache:

Deutsch ; Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Zibold, J. [VerfasserIn]
Gernert, J. A. [VerfasserIn]
Reik, L. J. U. [VerfasserIn]
Keidel, L. M. [VerfasserIn]
Graupe, T. [VerfasserIn]
Dimitriadis, K. [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Corona virus
Covid-19
Medical education
Medicine
Mentoring
Mentors
Online education
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Special aspects of education

doi:

10.3205/zma001404

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DOAJ015977447