Table 2 Features of professional working context and personal demographics of the 228 MERIT survey respondents
Variable | No. of respondents (% of 228) |
|---|---|
Initial training of mentor | |
Medicine | 121 (53.1%) |
Educational Sciences | 41 (18.0%) |
Health Sciences | 35 (15.4%) |
Psychology | 24 (10.5%) |
Biomedical Sciences | 18 (7.9%) |
Basic Sciences | 13 (5.7%) |
Social Sciences | 10 (4.4%) |
Allied Health Professions | 8 (3.5%) |
Public Health | 6 (2.6%) |
Nursing Sciences | 2 (0.9%) |
Pharmacy | 2 (0.9%) |
Other | 22 (9.6%) |
Current main profession | |
Physician | 81 (35.5%) |
Researcher | 45 (19.7%) |
Teacher/Educator | 42 (18.4%) |
Educationalist | 23 (10.1%) |
PhD Candidate | 16 (7.0%) |
Basic Scientist | 5(2.2%) |
Other | 16 (7.0%) |
Educational Program in which mentor mentors | |
Medicine | 137 (60.1%) |
Health Sciences | 33 (14.5%) |
Educational Sciences | 22 (9.6%) |
Biomedical Sciences | 19 (8.3%) |
Allied Health Professions | 5 (2.2%) |
Pharmacy | 2 (0.9%) |
Public Health | 1 (0.4%) |
Dentistry | 1 (0.4%) |
Other | 8 (3.5%) |
Country in which mentor mentors (per continent) | |
Europe | 168 (73.3%) |
North America | 43 (18.9%) |
Australia | 8 (3.5%) |
Asia | 6 (2.6%) |
Africa | 3 (1.3%) |
Years of mentoring experience a | |
0–5 | 99 (43.4%) |
6–10 | 64 (28.1%) |
11–15 | 31 (13.6%) |
16–20 | 14 (6.1%) |
21–25 | 13 (5.7%) |
26–30 | 7 (3.1%) |
31–35 | 2 (0.9%) |
36–40 | 1 (0.4%) |
41–45 | 0 (0.0%) |
46–50 | 0 (0.0%) |
51–55 | 0 (0.0%) |
56–60 | 1 (0.4%) |
Mentor assesses mentee | |
Yes | 180 (78.9%) |
No | 41 (18.0%) |
Don’t know | 7 (3.1%) |