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Table 1 Focus group and key informant interview questions regarding mentees and mentors experiences and perceptions of the mentorship programme at the School of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University

From: Developing mentorship in a resource-limited context: a qualitative research study of the experiences and perceptions of the makerere university student and faculty mentorship programme

Focus group questions to mentees:

 • What is mentoring to you?

  ◦ How would you define mentoring?

  ◦ What elements constitute mentoring?

 • Tell me about your mentorship relationships. How do you feel about the meetings you have?

  ◦ How did you get your mentor?

  ◦ How often do you meet?

 • Mentoring relationships are supposed to be/expected to be reciprocal. How do you feel this has been met in your relationship?

  ◦ Did you have a mentor at undergraduate and how is it different from your current relationship as a post-graduate student?

 • Think about the last meeting with your mentor, what did you like or not like about your meeting?

  ◦ How did you feel at the end of the meeting?

 • In your view, what would consider as an ideal mentorship relationship?

  ◦ What to expect? What would you like to see or be done?

 • Is there something about the current mentorship programme that should be upheld, enhanced, maintained?

 • What would you like to see change about your mentorship relationship?

  ◦ and mentorship at the college?

 • Do you have anything you would like to share concerning mentorship at the college that we have not discussed or talked about?

Key informant interview questions to mentors:

 • What is mentoring to you?

  ◦ How would you define mentoring?

  ◦ What elements constitute mentoring?

 • Tell me about your mentorship programme or initiatives in the department?

  ◦ Who is involved? How are they involved?

 • How is the mentoring programme being conducted?

  ◦ Who assigns the mentors

  ◦ How many mentees per mentor)

 • Specifically, is there faculty mentorship in the department and how is it being conducted?

 • Are you involved in mentoring or are you being mentored?

  ◦ What is your personal experience?

 • In your view, what would you consider as an ideal mentorship relationship?

  ◦ What to expect? What would you like to see or be done?

  ◦ Is it any different from how you were mentored or are being mentored?

 • Did you have a mentor as a faculty and how is it different mentoring junior faculty?

  ◦ Tell me what you found different

 • Think about the last meeting with your mentor, what did you like or not like about your meeting?

  ◦ How did you feel at the end of the meeting?

 • What would you like to see change about mentorship at the department?

  ◦ and mentorship at the college?

 • Do you have anything you would like to share concerning mentorship at the college that we have not discussed or talked about?