Characteristics and quality assessment of online mentoring profile texts in academic medical mentoring

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BACKGROUND: Mentoring is important for a successful career in academic medicine. In online matching processes, profile texts are decisive for the mentor-selection. We aimed to qualitatively characterize mentoring-profile-texts, identify differences in form and content and thus elements that promote selection.

METHODS: In a mixed method study first, quality of texts in 150 selected mentoring profiles was evaluated (10-point Likert scale; 1 = insufficient to 10 = very good). Second, based on a thematic and content analysis approach of profile texts, categories and subcategories were defined. We compared the presence of the assigned categories between the 25% highest ranked profiles with the 25% lowest ranked ones. Finally, additional predefined categories (hot topics) were labelled on the selected texts and their impact on student evaluation was statistically examined.

RESULTS: Students rated the quality of texts with a mean of 5.89 ± 1.45. 5 main thematic categories, 21 categories and a total of 74 subcategories were identified. Ten subcategories were significantly associated with high- and four with low-rated profiles. The presence of three or more hot topics in texts significantly correlated with a positive evaluation.

CONCLUSION: The introduced classification system helps to understand how mentoring profile texts are composed and which aspects are important for choosing a suited mentor.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:23

Enthalten in:

BMC medical education - 23(2023), 1 vom: 09. Nov., Seite 849

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Gernert, Jonathan A [VerfasserIn]
Warm, Maximilian [VerfasserIn]
Salvermoser, Lukas [VerfasserIn]
Krüger, Nils [VerfasserIn]
Bethe, Stephan [VerfasserIn]
Kocheise, Lorenz [VerfasserIn]
von Hake, Malte [VerfasserIn]
Meyer-Schwickerath, Charlotte [VerfasserIn]
Graupe, Tanja [VerfasserIn]
Fischer, Martin R [VerfasserIn]
Dimitriadis, Konstantinos [VerfasserIn]

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Journal Article
Medical mentoring
Online matching
Online mentoring profiles

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Date Completed 13.11.2023

Date Revised 13.11.2023

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1186/s12909-023-04804-1

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM364378190