Suggested goals for mentoring residents
At a recent workshop about mentoring the following possible goals for resident mentoring were identified:
- Encouragement, graduated responsibilities
- Non-judgmental sounding board – The power that says its OK you don’t know
- Orientation to the discipline
- Family/life balance
- How to live as a …
- How to be on call
- Help with education planning
- Electives
- Identifying Journals
- Practice interests
- Person to talk about difficult outcomes
- How to interact with other members of the team
- Identify struggling resident