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Oral Presentation - 67
Academic Mentorship: A Need in Professional Career
SM Shehata
Section of Pediatric Surgery, Department of Surgery, Tanta University, Egypt
The university takes the responsibility to prepare the professionals of whatever specialty. The academic environment strengths the creativity need for future development especially for postgraduates. In the current era, the need to develop a research career side-by-side with the development of professional career is essential especially in medical career. Mentorship is a mandate for educational excellence whether professional or academic mentorship. In our circumstances, we are lacking mentorship training. Despite all the world development, the provision of researchers/ professionals is decreasing in the current decade as compared to sixties and seventies. High costs and lacking research opportunities constitute major limiting factors in 2008. Herbert Reynolds reported recently this problem in the field of health care.
As junior researchers and academician need training and supervision, also the mentors need to be trained and updated. This should constitute a major component in teaching and development of the university graduates. Creativity and research basics could be taught to the undergraduates as well as postgraduates. The new ideas and research is translated later to strategies in different professions with the resultant development of the whole community. Good guidance in beginning a research career is necessary and usually requires an expert and qualified mentor. Creative and spirited mentoring efforts are very important in career selection so current approaches need to be critiqued for improvement. The outcome of doctoral students is a critical issue to be standardized by reviewing the aim of this highest postgraduate degree graduates.
In a recent report from USA, the percentage of qualified mentors to lead research is diminished that present a risk in the strategic planning of profession that possibly reflected on community development. Teachers are not necessarily mentors for students because they have different duties which are not those of counselor or mentor. Our current situation and possible suggestions and solutions from the world experience with example from health care career as our specialty will be presented and discussed.
With the new university tasks and directions, the outcome of doctoral students as being senior leaders and researchers in their fields in our current postgraduate system is alarming. Appropriate mentoring needs to continue throughout the entire research and academic career. Ways to provide “mentoring” better to be programmed, that result in improved measurable outcomes.
Academic Mentorship: A Need in Professional Career
SM Shehata
Section of Pediatric Surgery, Department of Surgery, Tanta University, Egypt
The university takes the responsibility to prepare the professionals of whatever specialty. The academic environment strengths the creativity need for future development especially for postgraduates. In the current era, the need to develop a research career side-by-side with the development of professional career is essential especially in medical career. Mentorship is a mandate for educational excellence whether professional or academic mentorship. In our circumstances, we are lacking mentorship training. Despite all the world development, the provision of researchers/ professionals is decreasing in the current decade as compared to sixties and seventies. High costs and lacking research opportunities constitute major limiting factors in 2008. Herbert Reynolds reported recently this problem in the field of health care.
As junior researchers and academician need training and supervision, also the mentors need to be trained and updated. This should constitute a major component in teaching and development of the university graduates. Creativity and research basics could be taught to the undergraduates as well as postgraduates. The new ideas and research is translated later to strategies in different professions with the resultant development of the whole community. Good guidance in beginning a research career is necessary and usually requires an expert and qualified mentor. Creative and spirited mentoring efforts are very important in career selection so current approaches need to be critiqued for improvement. The outcome of doctoral students is a critical issue to be standardized by reviewing the aim of this highest postgraduate degree graduates.
In a recent report from USA, the percentage of qualified mentors to lead research is diminished that present a risk in the strategic planning of profession that possibly reflected on community development. Teachers are not necessarily mentors for students because they have different duties which are not those of counselor or mentor. Our current situation and possible suggestions and solutions from the world experience with example from health care career as our specialty will be presented and discussed.
With the new university tasks and directions, the outcome of doctoral students as being senior leaders and researchers in their fields in our current postgraduate system is alarming. Appropriate mentoring needs to continue throughout the entire research and academic career. Ways to provide “mentoring” better to be programmed, that result in improved measurable outcomes.