Planning a sustainable neurosurgery mentorship program in a war-torn country: experience from Iraq  

作　　者：Teeba A. Al-Ageely Mustafa Ismail Zinah A. Alaraji Jaafar Abdulwahid Fatima Ayad Huda Jaafar Awfa Aktham Hayder R. Salih Samer Hoz Teeba A.Al-Ageely;Mustafa Ismail;Zinah A.Alaraji;Jaafar Abdulwahid;Fatima Ayad;Huda Jaafar;Awfa Aktham;Hayder R. Salih;Samer Hoz

机构地区：[1]College of Medicine, University of Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq [2]Department of Neurosurgery, Neurosurgery Teaching Hospital, Baghdad, Iraq [3]College of Medicine, Al-Nahrain University, Baghdad, Iraq [4]Department of Neurosurgery, Tokyo General Hospital, Tokyo, Japan [5]Department of Neurosurgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), Pittsburgh, PA, USA

出　　处：《Chinese Neurosurgical Journal》2024年第4期296-299,共4页中华神经外科杂志(英文)

摘　　要：The importance of mentorships in medical education and neurosurgery is highly attributed to the support and encouragement of the advances and learning opportunities for medical students and junior neurosurgeons. Planning a mentorship program according to the target audience offers to satisfy different interests and enhance education. One of the main issues with most of the already implemented programs is the sustainability and inability to maintain continuous cycles of mentorship, which have a negative impact and have led to an interrupted pattern of learning which eventually leads to a decline in the engagement of participants and loss of interest. This problem is most pronounced in war-torn countries, with Iraq as an example, where external circumstances lead to an arrest in the educational process and a depletion of the resources useful for such programs and training courses. This paper aims to address the main pathways essential in planning a sustainable mentorship program in a war-torn country by highlighting our experience in maintaining an ongoing mentorship with nine consecutive courses over the last 6 years in Iraq.

关 键 词：Medical education MENTORSHIP War-torn countries NEUROSURGERY 

分 类 号：R651[医药卫生—外科学]