Introducing mentoring to doctors: Challenging the sink or swim culture

Abstract

The concept of mentoring (or indeed providing any support with personal and professional development) for doctors in the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) is still relatively new. The majority of practicing doctors have been educated and trained using very traditional models of lectures, exams and apprenticeship. They made their career decisions and career plans relatively young in life and they were expected to stick to them throughout their working life.

Citation

Doherty, C. (2004), "Introducing mentoring to doctors: Challenging the sink or swim culture", Development and Learning in Organizations, Vol. 18 No. 1, pp. 6-8. https://doi.org/10.1108/14777280410698853