Getting Started: Tips for Mentors
Where absence of adequate food, shelter, potable water, and other necessities increases the local population's vulnerability to infectious diseases and their complications, local health services are often as resource-poor as the patients they serve. Clinical mentors may also encounter politically challenging situations, ethical dilemmas, and difficulty in reconciling the standard of care to which the mentor is accustomed with currently available care and treatment options. Clinical mentors should thus be prepared for the challenges of providing effective mentoring, especially in resource-constrained clinical settings.
- Ethical Considerations: Case Studies
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- Strategies to Encourage the Multidisciplinary Team Care Model
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- Tips on Overcoming Interpersonal Tension Between Mentor & Trainee
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- Reinforcing the Importance of Thorough History Taking and Physical Examinations
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- "Drawing the Line" on Inappropriate Clinical Care in Resource-Constrained Settings
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- Long-Term Patient Outcomes and the Structure and Context of Clinical Mentoring
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- Medical Uncertainty, Resource Limitations, and Physician Decision Making
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- Suggestions for Mentoring Activities within the HIV Clinic Setting
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This document describes ethical dilemmas that can sometimes occur when clinical mentors are in the field. The nine case studies identify common scenarios that clinical mentors may encounter and some tips for managing each scenario.
This document discusses strategies to encourage multidisciplinary team models in settings. The strategies are specific common scenarios in resource-constrained settings. A team-building exercise is included as one of the strategies.
This document presents strategies and tips that mentors may consider in trying to understand and ultimately circumvent interpersonal tension that can sometimes occur between mentor and trainee.
This document presents a paediatric case study that highlights the importance of taking a thorough history and performing a physical exam, including weight. It also highlights the importance of adherence.
This document reviews several strategies that the mentor can employ in the field when such challenges arise, using a case-based format.
This document provides I-TECH's opinions on the likely mentor and programme characteristics of effective versus ineffective clinical mentoring.
This document emphasises ways to avoid errors in clinical reasoning and how to use simple evidence-based medicine concepts to ensure safer medical practice in resource-constrained settings.
This document gives mentors tips on how they can maximise their impact while on assignment. It provides strategies to focus mentoring activities with trainees.