Publications by authors named "Ranitha Govindasamy"
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- Mentoring is essential for professional identity formation (PIF), as it fosters personalized relationships and integrates program values, though its mechanisms remain unclear.
- A systematic scoping review examined existing literature on mentoring support from 2000 to mid-2023, using rigorous methodology to analyze themes and categories.
- Key findings highlight four domains vital to effective mentoring support: definitions and roles, personalisation, shepherding, and PIF, showcasing the importance of adapting mentoring approaches to meet individual mentee needs.
Background: Journeying with patients throughout their cancer trajectory and caring for them at the end of life can lead to emotional and moral distress in oncologists, negatively impacting their personal and professional identities. A better understanding of how transitions in care goals affect oncologists can shed light on the challenges faced and the support required. This study explored the impact of care transitions on oncologists' professional identity formation (PIF).
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- - The study explores how mentorship in medical education has transitioned from a one-on-one relationship to include group and peer mentoring, highlighting its evolving and context-specific nature.
- - A systematic review of literature from 2000 to 2023 identified 216 articles that illustrate mentoring as a complex adaptive system (CAS), with key characteristics such as community dynamics and long-term support.
- - The conclusion stresses the need to rethink how mentorship is designed and supported in medical training, emphasizing the importance of understanding mentorship as a CAS for enhancing mentor training and support.
Context: The provision of person-centered dignity-conserving care is central to palliative care. It is important to reevaluate current methods of assessing dignity as the concept of dignity is multifaceted.
Objectives: The aim of this study is to understand the tools which are used to assess a patient's dignity and the elements of dignity evaluated in these tools.