Qualitative research for investigating the factors that facilitate or interfere
10.11307/mededjapan.42.75
- VernacularTitle:臨床研究教育におけるメンタリングの促進・阻害因子の探索的研究
- Author:
Hiroki Mishina
;
Yoko Yokoyama
;
Mitchell D Feldman
;
Naoki Kakudate
;
Shunichi Fukuhara
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
mentoring;
clinical research;
medical education;
qualitative research
- From:Medical Education
2011;42(2):75-80
- CountryJapan
- Language:Japanese
-
Abstract:
Mentorship in academic medicine in the United States and Europe has been recognized as an effective system for increasing a mentee's research productivity, career success, and ability to obtain research grants. Therefore, to promote mentoring programs in Japanese academic medicine, it is important to investigate factors that facilitate or interfere with mentoring.
1)We interviewed 12 physicians who have performed clinical research under existing mentoring programs in Japan and asked them about factors that, in their experience, had facilitated or interfered with mentoring.
2)We qualitatively analyzed transcripts of interviews to identify these factors.
3)Factors identified as facilitating mentoring were: appropriate evaluation of a mentee's research skill, knowledge of a mentee's career goals, mutual communication between mentor and mentee, and the presence of senior researchers close to a mentee.
4)Factors identified as interfering with mentoring were: the busyness of a mentor, a mentee's concerns about giving offense by consulting the mentor about trivial matters, and the hierarchically organized social relationship in which the mentor is superior and the mentee is inferior.
5)Assessment of the mentoring process and education programs for mentors were expected to be necessary measures to promote mentoring programs.
