Review Article
Year: 2020 | Month: December | Volume: 7 | Issue: 12 | Pages: 222-226
Mentoring Across Divides for Medical Students: Contested Space for Mutual Learning or Paradox of Diversity
Narayana Krishnappa1, Vidhya Rani Reddy2, Shilpa Mruthyunjaya3
1Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Sri Siddhartha Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre, T Begur, Bengaluru
2Specialist Radiologist, Department of Radiology, Zulekha Hospital, Dubai, UAE
3Associate Professor, Department of Physiology, Sri Siddhartha Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre, T Begur, Bengaluru
Corresponding Author: Narayana Krishnappa
ABSTRACT
Mentoring medical students is often a more complex exercise, which requires both institutional support and personal support as the experiential learning of medical students is entirely different from others. There are many aspects of Individual characteristics which offers challenges for Mentors, Mentees, and the Institution to overcome and have an effective Mentorship Program. Every mentor mentee relationship has a boundary which is created by the personal identities of both. Since the dialogue between mentor and mentee occurs in this space, there is always an opportunity for this space to be challenged. When this space is challenged, then there are two possibilities which can occur, either it provides an opportunity for both to learn or can become a battle ground for identities. Then it becomes a challenging enterprise for the mentor to handle the mentor-mentee relationship effectively across this divide.
Keywords: Mentor, Mentee, Diversity, Mentoring, divides.
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