From boss to mentor to partner : transitioning in medical education

Department of Public health, Faculty of Medicine, Université Val-de-Marne (Paris XII), Paris, France
EuroNet MRPH, Paris, Europe
Laboratory of Neurosciences (LIM-27), Department and Institute of Psychiatry and Interdisciplinary Center for Applied Neuromodulation,, University Hospital University of São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brasil
Department of Neurosurgery, University of skopje, Skopje, Macedonia
Department of Cardiac Surgery, Pauls Stradins University Hospital and Laboratory of Biomechanics,, Riga Stradins University, Riga, Latvia
Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine,, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
School of health systems and public health, Faculty of health sciences,, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Semmelweis University of Medical Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
Birmingham Women's Hospital, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine,, Vasile Goldis Western university of Arad, Arad, Romania
President, New York Academy of medicine, New york, United States of America
DOI
10.7287/peerj.preprints.2948v1
Subject Areas
Science and Medical Education
Keywords
medical education, mentor, young physician leader
Copyright
© 2017 Rossinot et al.
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Cite this article
Rossinot H, Brunoni A, Filipce V, Kalejs M, Liyanapathirana V, Senkubuge F, Toldi G, Toth C, Boufford JI. 2017. From boss to mentor to partner : transitioning in medical education. PeerJ Preprints 5:e2948v1

Abstract

The relationship between the teacher and the student is changing as information becomes more readily available, and the science of education is evolving in parallel.

The question then is: what is expected from the modern teacher in medicine? As young physician professionals from all regions of the world, we asked ourselves: how should this question be answered? This paper was motivated by the shared concerns and recommendations that we, as a team of Young Physician Leaders (footnote on the program) presented at the Global Health Summit held in Berlin in October, 2015 and by our subsequent discussions.

Author Comment

This article has been written by some members of the Young Physician Leader 2015.