Facilitate coaching and mentoring in health and social care or children and young people’s settings…
Time and energy should be spent selecting mentors who want to make a difference, training mentors to enhance effectiveness, and evaluating mentor programs in light of their…
I know that having the ability to a good listener and be open minded and direct the mentee thought process to allow them to see things from another perspective is really important.…
Ever since I transferred to the University of Miami as an undergrad, I have had the gratification and honor to meet and work with various remarkable people, from physicians to scientists and staff. Doing research and shadowing at Miami Miller School of Medicine gave me the prospect to admire how marvelous the school and its community are. Furthermore, I have had the satisfaction to meet several professors who teach at the medical school and the prospect of learning from them is enticing. Being able to experience first-hand the compassion and care that the doctors at Miller demonstrate their patients have also confirmed that this school is not short of role models for me to follow. Additionally, I have met several students who have shared their…
Measuring the Impact of a Mentoring Program: Preparing African American Males for Success Beyond High School…
The relationship between a mentor and mentee is one of molding and shaping. As pedagogical strategy that is deeply rooted in vocational education, mentoring adds culture and colour to the learning experience.…
My goals for residency are simple – to continuously learn in order to educate and heal. Although I have been involved in the community in various ways for many years, I am truly excited to start giving back to society from a different perspective – that of a physician, of a person’s first stop in their most vulnerable of times. Family Medicine is a broad field that will challenge me in many ways, but I am ready to enhance my knowledge in a program that fosters learning through a supportive, team approach where patients and their futures are the greatest concerns.…
According to LaVant and Shandley’s definition (as cited in Gibson, 2014), mentoring refers to the process which intentionally exists between many people that involves a mentor acting as a guide to the mentee and makes them fit in a new environment. Many approaches and programs have been placed in ensuring that all students get the same level of higher education. However, all these approaches are limited by margination and institutionalized racism towards African American students. Mentoring has brought a new dimension and solution to such problems.…
This paper will address adult learning in relationship to Malcolm Knowles’ adult learning theory and David Kolb’s experiential learning theory. The ideas addressed will also show how this knowledge can help me to learn more efficiently in the future.…
This is a tribute to a man that has always been and will always be my mentor. His name is Alan Dale Jacobson, he is my father. He is not technically my father by blood, but he is by far the best father I could have ever asked for. I have known him my entire life as Uncle Al until I was 13 and he married my mother and our relationship went to a whole new level. He taught me many things like pride, honesty, to put my family above all things, and how to be an honorable man.…
624). This definition is expanded in the nursing field as the mentoring relationship should foster a supportive, caring, respectful environment where the mentor and mentee can collaborate and develop personally and professionally (Poronsky, 2012). Mentors rely on their professional experience to guide their mentees. Mentors encourage and support their mentees, yet at the same time, find ways to challenge and promote growth within their mentees. Mentorship often occurs during periods of transition, such as when mentees are beginning a new role or a new profession (Poronsky,…
Life can be a treacherous journey that even the toughest people have trouble making it through. No one, not even the greatest superheros can get through it alone. We all need some sort of mentor. Someone like Mr. Miyagi was to Karate Kid and Athena was to Odysseus. I am no different, a mentor’s job is to lead and guide you through whatever life throws your way. My mentor has done that and much more. Normally it seems most mentors either come from different ethnicities or cultural backgrounds but, not in this case. Me and my mentor share a ton of the same characteristics and traits. Although he is older and much more wiser, we are still close enough in age to experience and enjoy some of the same cultural activities. One of them being checking…
I felt this sense of fear, but I knew it was just nervousness. It caused my whole body to tremble. I creeped onto the field and pass by the fifty girls and all of the coaches. Just me walking by everyone gave me this ginormous knot in my stomach, it made me feel like I was going to pass out right on the field. I was breathing heavy, like I just ran a marathon. I was beyond nervous just to be the new girl on the field. I was scared of what the girls thought of me, and how the coaches thought I would play and adapt to the sport. I had never even picked up a lacrosse stick and the girls were passing, catching and shooting on goal: how does a new player get to there if they were two week late into the season? I was terrified I would never get to the level of the rest of the team.…
Learning is a relatively enduring or permanent change in behavior or knowledge that results from previous experience with certain stimuli and responses. The term behavior includes any observable response (Plotnik and Kouyoumdjian, 2002). All of us should keep learning different things every time. It is very essential because we always need new knowledge or skills for we will encounter new and different situations in life as we grow up.…
When I started my internship at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center (KCMC), which lies in the foothills of snow capped Mount Kilimanjaro in Moshi, Tanzania, I developed my clinical hands-on experience. I helped diagnose and manage a wide variety of acute and chronic medical conditions, from the very common to unusual and complicated cases. I embraced every opportunity not only for patient care, but also the development of my clinical problem solving skills as well as presentation. As days went by, learning became easier. while discussing cases with my colleagues, residents and attending, I came to understand that it is impractical to know everything in medicine, but that built my confidence to improve my basic steps in the management of…