Kolb's Reflective Model

Reflective practice is an essential tool, that can help us learn from our experiences and can also serve as a starting point for learning (Jasper, 2003). However, this requires use of a reflective model. Felder (1993) and Jasper (2003) asserts that Kolb’s cycle is helpful as it touches all important aspects, i.e. experience, reflection, thought and action. Thus, allowing a credible link to be established from experience to any new action required to improve the outcome. Hence, to achieve my objective of this essay, I am going to use Kolb’s model (1984) of reflection that has an experiential four stage process described below:
Stage 1: Concrete experience
This relates to my first official meeting with my mentor in the ultrasound department
Whereas, Zachary and Fischler (2009) identified seven crucial elements that can make the mentor-mentee relationship effective namely 'Reciprocity', i.e. requiring equal engagement by both the parties, 'Learning' whereby mentee expands his/her perception, knowledge about the field and gaining an insight of what works and what don't, 'Relationship of trust' so that honest and authentic conversations, 'Partnership' bringing distinctive pervious individual experiences, diversity and individuality from both sides, 'Collaboration' that will help to engage, learn, share and build consensus, defining 'Mutual Goals' that are clear and specific, otherwise there is always a risk of losing the focus and hence can result in disappointment and lastly, 'Development' that helps one
This may be because in situations whereby a mentor has already been assigned, establishing a rapport is very important before any further planning. This allows the mentee to know their mentors better and similarly mentor can learn about their mentee's expectations and dreams they want to pursue (Cox, 2005). However, to remain focus and eliminate any ambiguity one needs to have a goal oriented framework. Doran (1981) suggested the SMART framework method which stands for specific, measurable, action-oriented, realistic and timely goals can certainly helps mentees to be set objectives and achieve the desired outcome (cited by Yemm, 2013). However, it is an iterative process which requires spending time but remains the most significant step that can propel you forward in your goal and building effective relationships that can overcome challenges and provide better results (Zakhary and Fischler,