PICOS | Inclusion Criteria | Exclusion Criteria |
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Population | • Junior physicians, residents, and medical students | Allied health specialties such as dietetics, nursing, psychology, chiropractic, midwifery, social work Specialists, consultants, attendings and physicians not in training programs Non-medical specialties such as clinical and translational science, veterinary, dentistry |
Intervention | • All forms of mentoring and o Mentoring processes o Mentor factors o Mentee factors o Mentoring relationship o Host organization o Outcomes of mentoring o Barriers to mentoring o Mentoring structure o Mentoring framework o Mentoring culture o Mentoring environment • Educational roles of mentoring: Supervision, coaching, role-modelling, teaching, and tutoring |  |
Comparison | • Comparisons accounts of mentoring between mentoring programs, editorials, and perspective, reflective, narratives and opinions pieces |  |
Outcome | • Personal outcomes of mentoring such as values, beliefs, identity as a medical professional etc • Professional development outcomes such as on career choices (including academia positions/careers) | • Papers that did not discuss impact of mentoring on personal or professional development outcomes |
Study design | • All study designs are included o Descriptive papers o Qualitative, quantitative, and mixed study methods o Systematic review, literature reviews, and narrative reviews • Perspectives, opinion, commentary pieces, and editorials • Year: 1st January 2000 to 31st December 2020 |  |