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PsychStart: a novel mentoring scheme for supporting and valuing medical students interested in psychiatry
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We describe the establishment and evaluation of a career-based mentoring scheme (PsychStart) for medical students interested in psychiatry. Medical students reported multiple benefits of mentoring, including enhanced personal and professional development, increased career and clinical knowledge, and broadened exposure to psychiatry. The mentoring scheme was also found to promote and sustain interest in the specialty. Further evaluation is required to determine the long-term effects of mentoring and how this may compare with other undergraduate enrichment activities. We conclude that mentoring in psychiatry could offer innovative solutions for improving recruitment and retention, and for supporting and valuing medical students who demonstrate an early interest in the specialty.
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2021
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Education, Medical education, Career choice, Mentors
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Hewson, T., Thomas, N., Lovett, K., Bruce, H. & Tracy, D. K. (2021). PsychStart: a novel mentoring scheme for supporting and valuing medical students interested in psychiatry. BJPsych Bulletin, 45(6), pp.343-350.
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This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Copyright © The Author(s), 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of BJPsych Bulletin