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Mentoring in general practice nurtures personal and professional development among mentees and mentors and enhances organisational productivity. Yet, failure to define it leads to variations in understanding and practice and conflation with other educational approaches. As a result, mentoring in general practice is underutilised and poorly overseen. This review seeks to identify elements among successful mentoring relationships to aid the design of local mentoring programmes. Reports of undergraduate and postgraduate mentoring programmes in general practice were analysed thematically. A literature search of mentoring of junior postgraduates or undergraduates by experienced mentors in general practice between 1 January 2000 and 31 December 2015 was done using PubMed, ERIC, ScienceDirect, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews and OVID. A total of 1973 abstracts were retrieved and 9 full-text articles were included and analysed. Three themes were identified, including the initiation of mentoring relationships, the mentoring relationship and the mentoring environment. Successful mentoring programmes pivot upon effective mentoring relationships. Based on the themes identified, a framework to guide practice, structure and oversight of the mentoring process is forwarded. Further context-specific study is needed to ensure the viability of the Mentoring Framework to better employ mentoring in general practice.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14739879.2018.1474723DOI Listing

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