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Peer Mentoring at the Uganda Cancer Institute: A Novel Model for Career Development of Clinician-Scientists in Resource-Limited Settings
- Source :
- Journal of Global Oncology, Journal of Global Oncology, Vol 4, Pp 1-11 (2018)
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), 2018.
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Abstract
- Cancer centers are beginning to emerge in low- and middle-income countries despite having relatively few oncologists and specialists in related fields. Uganda, like many countries in sub-Saharan Africa, has a cadre of highly motivated clinician-scientists-in-training who are committed to developing the capacity for cancer care and research. However, potential local mentors for these trainees are burdened with uniquely high demands on their time for clinical care, teaching, institutional development, advocacy, and research. Facilitated peer mentoring helps to fill skills and confidence gaps and teaches mentoring skills so that trainees can learn to support one another and regularly access a more senior facilitator/role model. With an added consultant component, programs can engage limited senior faculty time to address specific training needs and to introduce junior investigators to advisors and even potential dyadic mentors. Two years after its inception, our facilitated peer mentoring career development program at the Uganda Cancer Institute in Kampala is successfully developing a new generation of researchers who, in turn, are now providing role models and mentors from within their group. This program provides a practical model for building the next generation of clinical scientists in developing countries.
- Subjects :
- Cancer Research
Biomedical Research
020205 medical informatics
MEDLINE
02 engineering and technology
Cancer Care Facilities
lcsh:RC254-282
Peer Group
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Physicians
Peer mentoring
Role model
ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION
0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
Humans
Medicine
Uganda
030212 general & internal medicine
Program Development
Medical education
Education, Medical
business.industry
4. Education
Mentors
Academies and Institutes
Mentoring
Peer group
lcsh:Neoplasms. Tumors. Oncology. Including cancer and carcinogens
Research Personnel
Oncology
Facilitator
Health Resources
Special Articles
business
Limited resources
Career development
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 23789506
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Global Oncology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....fb1e639351a167017907df7b11126d98
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1200/jgo.17.00134