TY - JOUR
T1 - Personal perception on mentoring
AU - Hill, James A.
AU - Boone, Sonja
PY - 2002
Y1 - 2002
N2 - The current authors discuss mentoring as an important volunteer activity. The roles and responsibilities of the mentor and the protégé are described. The mentor's role consists of teaching, coaching, supporting, counseling, and sharing information with the protégé. The protégé responsibilities are to understand the value of the mentor and seek his or her advice. The importance of mentoring underrepresented minorities, potential and present medical students in orthopaedic surgery is specifically described. The personal experience of one author is given as an example of what can be accomplished and why the current authors think mentoring is important.
AB - The current authors discuss mentoring as an important volunteer activity. The roles and responsibilities of the mentor and the protégé are described. The mentor's role consists of teaching, coaching, supporting, counseling, and sharing information with the protégé. The protégé responsibilities are to understand the value of the mentor and seek his or her advice. The importance of mentoring underrepresented minorities, potential and present medical students in orthopaedic surgery is specifically described. The personal experience of one author is given as an example of what can be accomplished and why the current authors think mentoring is important.
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U2 - 10.1097/00003086-200203000-00011
DO - 10.1097/00003086-200203000-00011
M3 - Article
C2 - 11859225
AN - SCOPUS:0036186234
SN - 0009-921X
VL - 396
SP - 73
EP - 75
JO - Clinical orthopaedics and related research
JF - Clinical orthopaedics and related research
ER -