Hewson, Thomas;
Thomas, Nikki;
Lovett, Kate;
Bruce, Helen;
Tracy, Derek K;
(2021)
PsychStart: a novel mentoring scheme for supporting and valuing medical students interested in psychiatry.
BJPsych Bulletin
, 45
(6)
pp. 343-350.
10.1192/bjb.2020.107.
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Abstract
We describe the establishment and evaluation of a career-based mentoring scheme (PsychStart) for medical students interested in psychiatry. Medical students reported multiple benefits of mentoring, including enhanced personal and professional development, increased career and clinical knowledge, and broadened exposure to psychiatry. The mentoring scheme was also found to promote and sustain interest in the specialty. Further evaluation is required to determine the long-term effects of mentoring and how this may compare with other undergraduate enrichment activities. We conclude that mentoring in psychiatry could offer innovative solutions for improving recruitment and retention, and for supporting and valuing medical students who demonstrate an early interest in the specialty.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | PsychStart: a novel mentoring scheme for supporting and valuing medical students interested in psychiatry |
| Location: | England |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1192/bjb.2020.107 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjb.2020.107 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © The Author(s), 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of BJPsych Bulletin. This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| Keywords: | Mentoring; medical education; education and training; recruitment; medical student |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > UCL GOS Institute of Child Health UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > UCL GOS Institute of Child Health > Population, Policy and Practice Dept |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10187923 |
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