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Admissions can play an important role in promoting interest in family medicine as a career choice for new graduates. The performance of not only an individual but the entire organization is related to how its employees or colleagues perform. Health care systems are no different. Apart from being organized, focused and having good communication skills, the presence of good teachers can positively affect the overall atmosphere of an organization. Mentoring in health care can promote learning and improve patient care.
Mentoring is a way to help an individual in their professional career or personal development. Mentoring is defined as the sharing of knowledge, skills and experiences to guide and support another person. It is the transfer of initial knowledge from an experienced in the same field. Mentoring can be formal or informal. This can be online or offline; short term or long term; And expectations from both mentor and mentee may differ. Mentoring in healthcare can provide a strong foundation for trainees and define their career path. Fostering strong mentoring relationships can have a lasting impact on an organization’s image.
Keeping in mind the roles and responsibilities of primary care physicians and the current state of primary care facilities and services in the South Asian region, capacity building of such physicians is essential. Good consultants are needed to make primary care more attractive or attractive. Such mentors not only help shape the career of the trainee. A mentor’s experience and guidance can help trainees focus on and work on gaps in their training. When community involvement and empowerment are goals, a primary care physician must develop empathy and take responsibility for their own actions. Mentorship is a form of companionship, it helps to change the behavior of mentees which in turn promotes equality. Equity is linked to quality service delivery and better outcomes.
As a primary care physician working in testing settings in low-middle-income countries such as Pakistan; Mental health, non-communicable diseases and unmet maternal and child health needs can cause stress. In addition, dealing with multiple issues such as antimicrobial resistance, multi-drug resistance in infections especially TB and HIV, injection/needle reuse and misuse, and lack of a strong primary care system exacerbates health problems. is There is a great need for guidance among family medicine/primary care physicians.
The consultant doctors’ understanding of the country’s health care system and the insight they gain into the fundamentals of primary care identify the skills and competencies they need to become safe, competent and independent primary care physicians. And can help develop.
For trainees, learning in a clinical environment during a clinical rotation is a new experience, especially for those coming after a break. A good mentor-mentee relationship can help solve many problems. The mentee’s understanding of the country’s health care system and the insight they gain into the fundamentals of primary care to identify and develop the skills and competencies they need to become safe, competent and independent primary care physicians. I can help. This, in turn, will not only impact trainee awareness but will also improve patient care and help reduce disease burden.
Guidance may be sought in resource-constrained settings. One way to deal with this is to introduce mentoring programs to empower mentors. Efforts to transform and introduce reforms in a fragmented health care system require the presence of educators with leadership skills, communication skills, and technical skills. Primary care physicians work with multidisciplinary teams. Multidisciplinary mentoring can lead to the development of basic primary care skills.
The need for mentorship is not just in the clinical domain. It is also needed in primary care research. New knowledge is generated through research. It needs to be further developed along with developing research skills among junior doctors. Mentoring plays an important role in shaping both the academic and research environment and plays a key role in the mentee’s overall professional development. Practical guidance in primary care helps to promote learning and improve work performance resulting in improved communication in multidisciplinary teams.
Dr. Hina Javed is Associate Professor of Family Medicine at Health Services Academy, Islamabad.
Dr. Subia Javed is a family physician at Evercare Hospital, Lahore.
