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Mentoring for doctors: Signposts to current practice for career grade doctors

Guidance from the Doctors' Forum

This guidance is based on current views about mentoring for doctors and the experience of doctors and managers of schemes that are already in operation. There are considerable variations in how mentoring is perceived and practised. However, despite these differences, the central concepts are consistent - mentoring helps doctors to help themselves, to find their own solutions to indeterminate problems.