Mentorship in Medicine: A Book in Mentoring in the Medical Profession

The art of Mentoring has been practiced informally in the medical profession considering that the medical practice is actually a type of apprenticeship. In view of the immense benefit of formal mentoring in other organizations, there is need to institute formal mentoring in the medical profession. This book is on mentoring as it applies to the medical profession. The emphasis is on the types of mentors, benefits and the challenges. It also gives a guide to hospitals with no prior mentoring programmes.