Abstract

Mentorship programs are quite popular in medical schools of only some western countries but majority of the medical colleges in most countries do not have a proper mentorship program. In our institution mentorship Program was implemented for the first time in 2013. These students have completed their first year MBBS successfully. In order to find out the perceptions of students and the mentors, they were given a questionnaire related to mentorship program to get their feedbacks. Thus, obtained data will be useful in modifying the mentorship program in the future. Objectives: To find out the student’s and mentor’s perception of the mentorship program through a feedback questionnaire. Methodology: 104 medical undergraduate students, each from 2013 batch and 11 faculties/mentors of Geetanjali medical college and hospital, Udaipur formed the material for the current study. This is a cross sectional descriptive study. Each student and each mentor was provided a questionnaire to find out their perception. Thus obtained data were analyzed. Results: Only 31.73% of students said, that they could handle failures, depression and homesickness better as a result of the mentorship program. Only 52.88% of students mentioned that their performance in exams improved, as a result of mentorship program. Only 81.82% of mentors felt mentoring was a nice concept. Conclusion: So, all mentors must be trained by psychiatrist or clinical psychologist to counsel the students. Also, all mentors have to be motivated to participate in this program with full interest and maximum commitment by the program coordinator

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