Al-Ageely Teeba A, Ismail Mustafa, Alaraji Zinah A, Abdulwahid Jaafar, Ayad Fatima, Jaafar Huda, Aktham Awfa, Salih Hayder R, Hoz Samer
College of Medicine, University of Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq.
Department of Neurosurgery, Neurosurgery Teaching Hospital, Baghdad, Iraq.
Chin Neurosurg J. 2024 Aug 2;10(1):23. doi: 10.1186/s41016-024-00376-1.
The importance of mentorships in medical education and neurosurgery is highly attributed to the support and encouragement of the advances and learning opportunities for medical students and junior neurosurgeons. Planning a mentorship program according to the target audience offers to satisfy different interests and enhance education. One of the main issues with most of the already implemented programs is the sustainability and inability to maintain continuous cycles of mentorship, which have a negative impact and have led to an interrupted pattern of learning which eventually leads to a decline in the engagement of participants and loss of interest. This problem is most pronounced in war-torn countries, with Iraq as an example, where external circumstances lead to an arrest in the educational process and a depletion of the resources useful for such programs and training courses. This paper aims to address the main pathways essential in planning a sustainable mentorship program in a war-torn country by highlighting our experience in maintaining an ongoing mentorship with nine consecutive courses over the last 6 years in Iraq.
导师指导在医学教育和神经外科领域的重要性，很大程度上归因于其为医学生和初级神经外科医生提供的支持以及在推动进步和学习机会方面的鼓励。根据目标受众规划导师指导项目，有助于满足不同兴趣并加强教育。大多数已实施项目的主要问题之一是可持续性以及无法维持持续的导师指导循环，这产生了负面影响，导致学习模式中断，最终致使参与者的参与度下降和兴趣丧失。这个问题在饱受战争蹂躏的国家最为突出，以伊拉克为例，外部环境导致教育进程停滞，以及用于此类项目和培训课程的资源枯竭。本文旨在通过强调我们在伊拉克过去6年连续举办9期课程并维持持续导师指导的经验，探讨在饱受战争蹂躏的国家规划可持续导师指导项目必不可少的主要途径。
