Mentorship in Healthcare
Medgeeks with Andrew Reid
Medgeeks
4.8 • 997 Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2022
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
We all need someone to show us the ropes to learn a skill. At an early age, our parents/guardians are our mentors. As we grow older, teachers can be our mentor.
In this week's episode, we will go over the different types of mentors. What characteristics make a good mentor and maybe ones that might just not be a good fit for you.
Join Dr. Niket Sonpal as he helps you find the best mentor (like Medgeeks)!
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| 0:00.0 | If you take a moment to research super successful people, they have a lot of things in common. |
| 0:04.1 | Whether it be, you know, someone who's famous in business like a lahn Musk or a famous author like John Grisham or even musicians, |
| 0:11.3 | the chances are that all of them have had a mentor at some |
| 0:14.8 | point in their life or someone who helps them with their career choices. |
| 0:18.9 | At some point in their career they probably had someone in the field who was more experienced |
| 0:23.7 | and were there to show them the ins and outs and help them navigate the waters of |
| 0:28.1 | being a part of a new field, a new career and probably helped them get to where they are today. |
| 0:34.0 | And that's the beautiful thing about mentoring. |
| 0:37.0 | And there are a lot of famous examples of mentoring all throughout history. |
| 0:41.1 | If you were to go ahead and look at the Marvel Cinematic Universe, you've got Tony Stark, Iron Man, who mentored young Peter Parker into becoming Spider-Man himself. |
| 0:50.0 | And he wasn't the one that told him great power comes great responsibility, but he didn't make him that awesome suit. |
| 0:56.0 | If he were going to consider other famous mentor-mante relationships, there's also the one from Lord of the Rings. |
| 1:01.0 | And you might be wondering, who am I talking about. Many would consider |
| 1:04.4 | that it's Gandoff who's the actual mentor to the mentee Frodo Baggins. But we all know that Sam Wes Gange is the true |
| 1:11.0 | mentor that helped Frodo get to Mordor and toss the ring of power into Mount |
| 1:16.1 | Doom. If it wasn't for him, none of this would have actually transpired and the world |
| 1:20.6 | would have ended in Middle Earth. but of course, because of mentors. |
| 1:24.4 | Wonderful things can happen for mentees, and whether it's business or even in health care. |
| 1:28.8 | Mentors can allow the mentees to traverse new environments, new changes, come up with new ideas, and operationalize their |
| 1:35.9 | career. |
| 1:36.9 | So ladies and gentlemen, I'm Dr. Niket's son- Paul, your friendly neighborhood internist |
| 1:40.0 | and gastrantrolyologist, and let's go ahead and talk this week about the value of mentoring in healthcare is the act of taking someone less experienced in the actual career line, |
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