A systematic review of mentorship programs and their outcomes in psychiatry training

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1 Title: A systematic review of mentorship programs and their outcomes in psychiatry training A systematic review of mentorship programs and their outcomes in psychiatry training Keywords: Mentorship, training, RANZCP, psychiatry, outcomes Project summary: To conduct a systematic literature review of the available published literature describing mentorship programs in psychiatry training and their outcomes. Justification for study There are no current systematic reviews examining the evidence and impact of mentorship programs in psychiatry training or residency. Investigators and funding: Coordinating investigator: Daniel You, (MBBS, DCH). No conflict of interest to report. Supervising investigator: Dr Warren Kealy-Bateman No funding is required Objectives The aim of this literature review is to describe the current evidence regarding outcomes of mentorship programs in psychiatry training Secondary outcome of Methods Prospero prospective registration of review Literature search of 4 databases; Medline, Embase, PsycINFO, Cochrane collaboration additional materials by contacting experts in the field, reviewing reference lists of key articles/reports, and citation searches Search strategy Mentor* or precept* AND Psychiatr* AND train* or residen* or program* 1

2 Definition of mentoring: Mentorship defined as -"A process whereby an experienced, highly regarded, empathetic person (the mentor) guides another (usually younger) individual (the mentee) in the development and reexamination of their own ideas, learning, and personal and professional development. The mentor, who often (but not necessarily) works in the same organization or field as the mentee, achieves this by listening or talking in confidence to the mentee." * This study will exclude articles which describe programs which aim only to teach a specific skill or skills. Mentoring is above this in terms of advice, guidance, encouragement and support. Eligibility criteria for articles Articles in indexed peer reviewed journal Relates to mentorship as defined as -"A process whereby an experienced, highly regarded, empathetic person (the mentor) guides another (usually younger) individual (the mentee) in the development and re-examination of their own ideas, learning, and personal and professional development. The mentor, who often (but not necessarily) works in the same organization or field as the mentee, achieves this by listening or talking in confidence to the mentee." Participants are psychiatry trainees/residents Article must describe a formal mentoring program of which mentorship is a core component Must contain extractable data regarding quantitative or qualitative evaluation of outcomes of the mentorship program Available in full text English language Screening for inclusion Total articles identified Duplicate records that appeared in more than one database (e.g. both MEDLINE and EMBASE) were excluded. All citations identified in the systematic search were downloaded into an Endnote database. Abstracts and titles screened by first author, and papers beyond scope of study excluded Full text versions obtained after first screen and further screened against eligibility criteria Second author cross-checks 10% of all full-text articles retrieved Reasons for exclusion identified Data extraction A data collection form is used to extract study type, intervention, setting, participant demographics, and outcome measures. Disagreements in assessment and data extraction was resolved by consensus of all authors. Data to be extracted: Author Year published Country Study type Mentoring model Setting 2

3 Goal of the program Participant characteristics and number Method/s of evaluation and what kind of data Outcome measures/effects Details on how the mentorship relationship was formed if provided methodological limitations noted by authors Synthesis Due to the heterogeneous make up of the literature, a meta-analysis is likely to be precluded and a narrative synthesis approach will be used to summarise findings. The first author will develop a collection of key themes arising from the study results. Results Example of flow chart Example of table describing included studies 3

4 Example of table describing impact of mentorship 4

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