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"The authors review the initiation and cultivation of a mentoring relationship from the perspective of a mentee at any stage (student through junior faculty), and they propose specific strategies for mentee success."

Mentorship is an important determinant of professional success. Emergency physicians have many opportunities to become involved in this activity, which holds rewards for both mentor and protege.

"The authors review the components necessary to successfully build and maintain a robust portfolio learning environment in a graduate medical education setting. These include gaining staff acceptance, staging implementation, enhancing learner participation, training mentors, choosing paper versus electronic formats, and selecting assessment methods."

An Outline of The RACGP Curriculum for Australian General Practice 2011

"Those planning medical curricula would be wise to engage their colleagues from philosophy and educational psychology to help elucidate these ideas and to learn how to construct longitudinal mentorship programs. The conceptual basis of these programs need to acknowledge that the boundary between being and doing is porous and that, through a maieutic process, mentors can catalyze and guide personal transformations in learners.

A social contract does exist between medicine and society. Because society has chosen to use the concept of the profession as a means of organizing the services of the healer, professionalism has come to serve as the basis of this social contract. What is expected of the physician as healer is largely determined by what it means to be a professional in contemporary society.

"How do we raise critical thinkers to best face the challenges that face our modern society?"