Role Of Mentorship in development of Emergency medicine Resident.
A Mentor has to have a lots of qualities but a person who makes you able to see light in yourself, showing you a right direction and make you able to achieve your goals is a Mentor. A Mentor is a person who is a light at the end of the tunnel when it comes to challenges and hardships a trainee faces in professional growth.
Emergency medicine has shown to be a challenge for any hospital to produce trained doctor who should be ready to deal with every sort of Acute emergencies and make them able to take valid decisions for patients.
Emergency medicine is department which reflects the quality of care and treatment of patient given in any hospital. Mentorship in emergency has always come out to be positive as it is up lifting for team, constructive for department and saves thousands of lives.
Emergency medicine has a lot of dimension to work in, whether it functions as a major trauma service, the high patient turnover, and the varied case mix of acutely unwell patients who are often suffering from time critical and life threatening illnesses; and being a trainee it’s not possible to deal without support, guidance and encouragement of mentors.
When a mentee who can be a junior doctor, a resident working in department of emergency medicine, he /she always looks up to his /her mentor to imbibe all he/she has (skills, knowledge, thought process, ideology) and apply it to deal with all sort of Acute emergencies and situations a department confronts.
There are different ways of mentorship but always fruitful and betterment for the department. A Resident/junior doctor in emergency department always try to follow on his/her mentors for improvising him/herself professionally. Mentorship is a core essence of emergency medicine helps to update with new ideas for making patient care better.