Gonçalves Marina de Castro Nascimento, Bellodi Patricia Lacerda
Postgraduate Program on Preventive Medicine, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
Sao Paulo Med J. 2012;130(4):252-8. doi: 10.1590/s1516-31802012000400009.
Mentors have been recognized as important elements in the personal and professional development of medical students. However, few investigations have sought to understand their development, needs and difficulties. Our objective was to investigate the perceptions of a group of mentors regarding difficulties experienced over time and the resources used to face up to them.
Qualitative exploratory study on mentors at Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo (FMUSP). In the FMUSP Mentoring Program, mentors follow and guide students throughout the course, and are responsible for heterogeneous group of students, in relation to the academic year.
Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 14 FMUSP mentors.
For many of the mentors, the difficulties related to initial doubts about the role, frustration with the students' attendance and overloading of daily tasks. To address such difficulties, these mentors used external resources and their own life experience and personal way of dealing with situations. Some mentors did not perceive difficulties for themselves or for students.
Like in other mentoring programs, many difficulties perceived by mentors seem to be derived from the context of medical education itself. However, unlike in other experiences, FMUSP mentors do not feel that there is lack of support for their role, since this is regularly provided in the structure and dynamics of the program. The "difficulty in perceiving difficulties", presented by some mentors, demands further investigation for better and greater understanding.
导师已被视为医学生个人及职业发展的重要因素。然而，很少有调查试图了解他们的发展、需求及困难。我们的目的是调查一组导师对随着时间推移所经历困难以及应对这些困难所使用资源的看法。
对圣保罗大学医学院（FMUSP）的导师进行定性探索性研究。在FMUSP导师计划中，导师在整个课程中跟踪并指导学生，且就学年而言，负责不同类型的学生群体。
对14位FMUSP导师进行了半结构化访谈。
对许多导师而言，困难包括对自身角色的最初疑虑、对学生出勤情况的沮丧以及日常任务的超负荷。为应对这些困难，这些导师利用外部资源以及他们自己的生活经验和处理情况的个人方式。一些导师并未察觉到自身或学生存在困难。
与其他导师计划一样，导师所察觉到的许多困难似乎源于医学教育本身的背景。然而，与其他经历不同的是，FMUSP导师并不觉得他们的角色缺乏支持，因为该计划的结构和动态会定期提供这种支持。一些导师所表现出的“难以察觉到困难”需要进一步调查，以便更好、更深入地理解。
