The Pacific Emergency Medicine Mentoring Program: A model for medical mentoring in the Pacific region.

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: To describe the development and implementation of a Pacific medical mentoring programme and to evaluate the programme after the first year. METHODS: The mentoring programme was adapted from Australasian College for Emergency Medicine resources and involved Australian emergency physicians mentoring Pacific Island Country doctors. Using a prospective, cross-sectional survey of all participants, researchers collected data that were analysed for content using deductive and inductive methods. Content analysis aimed to generate new concepts that could apply to different components of mentoring, and overarching themes that apply to the mentoring programme overall. RESULTS: Nineteen docto..