A clinical mentor in residency plays a key role in helping students effectively cope with medical challenges, improve practical skills, and develop a professional moral code. Having extensive knowledge of his specialization, the ability to effectively teach and transfer experience, the mentor stimulates the personal and professional growth of residents, as well as provides them with mentoring support.
Mentoring in pediatrics and neonatology is of particular importance for several reasons. Firstly, these specialties require specific skills in communicating with children and their parents. A mentor helps residents develop these communication skills necessary to understand and process medical issues in the context of a family.
Secondly, children can present unique clinical challenges, and a mentor’s experience in this area can be valuable for effective management of pediatric and neonatal cases. Mentoring also contributes to the transfer of experience in the field of diagnosis and treatment of various childhood diseases. Finally, pediatric medicine often requires a sensitive and empathic approach. The mentor plays an important role in the formation of residents not only clinical, but also ethical and emotional competencies necessary to work with children and their families.
The work is carried out on the basis of the leading children’s clinics in Semey, Ust-Kamenogorsk, Pavlodar: UG NAO “MUS”, KGP at PCV “CMiR”, KGP at PCV “Pavlodar Regional Children’s Hospital”, perinatal centers. Residents also supervise patients and are on duty in almost all urban children’s clinics in these cities, taking into account the specifics of the discipline being studied.
Clinical mentors are teachers of the NAO “Semey Medical University”, who perform medical work at the university hospital, as well as doctors of children’s medical institutions, heads of departments, all of them are specialists of the highest and first medical category: PhD, acting associate professor Akhmetzhanova D.O., assistant Imanmadieva D.M., assistant Ospanova A.S., Alibekova B.A., Tayorazova G.B., Ailbaeva N.M., head of the department of the emergency room of the CMIR Zhakimbaeva A.A., head of the cardionephrological department of the Pavlodar ODB Zhanbolatova N.K., district pediatrician of the Glubokovsky district Melnikova O.V., district pediatrician of the Aksuat RB Nurgalieva K.B.Clinical mentors teach residents the following skills:
1.Clinical skills: Diagnosis, treatment and management of medical cases.
2.Communication skills: Effective communication with patients, colleagues and other health care members.
- Professional ethics: Compliance with ethical standards, confidentiality and responsibility.
4.Time management: Efficient allocation of time for patient care and training.
- Problem solving: Skills for analyzing and solving complex clinical situations.
- Collaboration and teamwork: Teamwork, information exchange and teamwork.
7.Professional development: Continuous training, the ability to evaluate and improve your skills.
Residents initially perform such medical practical skills under the supervision of a mentor, then independently perform such medical skills as calculating nutrition for a healthy child and a patient with protein and energy deficiency, feeding through a probe, calculating doses of medicines per body weight and year of life, gastric lavage, catheterization of the bladder, emergency care for various critical conditions and other skills according to the State Educational Standard.
In addition to traditional forms of work, innovative approaches are used to improve students’ competencies – “peer to peer”, case methods “Joint analysis of professional situations is a universal way of learning”, research work in cluster groups with publication of the results in scientific journals.
Thus, mentoring is an important link in the formation and formation, training and upbringing of a young specialist pediatrician and neonatologist.