Characteristics and quality assessment of online mentoring profile texts in academic medical mentoring

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Abstract

Background

Mentoring is important for a successful career in academic medicine. In online matching processes, profile texts are decisive for the mentor-selection. We aimed to qualitatively characterize mentoring-profile-texts, identify differences in form and content and thus elements that promote selection.

Methods

In a mixed method study first, quality of texts in 150 selected mentoring profiles was evaluated (10-point Likert scale; 1 = insufficient to 10 = very good). Second, based on a thematic and content analysis approach of profile texts, categories and subcategories were defined. We compared the presence of the assigned categories between the 25% highest ranked profiles with the 25% lowest ranked ones. Finally, additional predefined categories ( hot topics) were labelled on the selected texts and their impact on student evaluation was statistically examined.

Results

Students rated the quality of texts with a mean of 5.89 ± 1.45. 5 main thematic categories, 21 categories and a total of 74 subcategories were identified. Ten subcategories were significantly associated with high- and four with low-rated profiles. The presence of three or more hot topics in texts significantly correlated with a positive evaluation.

Conclusion

The introduced classification system helps to understand how mentoring profile texts are composed and which aspects are important for choosing a suited mentor.

Supplementary Information

The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12909-023-04804-1.

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Konstantinos Dimitriadis: konstantin.dimitriadis@med.uni-muenchen.de

Journal

Journal ID (nlm-ta): BMC Med Educ

Journal ID (iso-abbrev): BMC Med Educ

Title: BMC Medical Education

Publisher: BioMed Central (London )

ISSN (Electronic): 1472-6920

Publication date (Electronic): 9 November 2023

Publication date PMC-release: 9 November 2023

Publication date Collection: 2023

Volume: 23

Electronic Location Identifier: 849

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[1 ]GRID grid.411095.8, ISNI 0000 0004 0477 2585, Institute of Medical Education, , LMU University Hospital, ; Pettenkoferstr. 8a, Munich, 80336 Germany

[2 ]GRID grid.411095.8, ISNI 0000 0004 0477 2585, Institute for Clinical Neuroimmunology, , LMU University Hospital, ; Munich, Germany

[3 ]GRID grid.411095.8, ISNI 0000 0004 0477 2585, Department of Radiology, , LMU University Hospital, ; Munich, Germany

[4 ]GRID grid.6190.e, ISNI 0000 0000 8580 3777, Department I of Internal Medicine, , Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, ; Cologne, Germany

[5 ]GRID grid.411095.8, ISNI 0000 0004 0477 2585, Department of Neurology, , LMU University Hospital, ; Munich, Germany

[6 ]GRID grid.411095.8, ISNI 0000 0004 0477 2585, Institute for Stroke and Dementia Research (ISD), , LMU University Hospital, ; Munich, Germany

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Publisher ID: 4804

DOI: 10.1186/s12909-023-04804-1

PMC ID: 10636985

PubMed ID: 37946146

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History

Date received : 17 October 2022

Date accepted : 25 October 2023

Funding

Funded by: Universitätsklinik München (6933)

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Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL.

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