Comments on: Collaborative Co-mentoring

By: Collaborative Learning: Post 80 | Healthcare Collaboration

Collaborative Learning: Post 80 | Healthcare Collaboration — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:49:43 +0000

[...] stories can you share about the co-mentoring process, in which we learn from sharing knowledge and experiences with [...]

By: Collaborative Compact | Healthcare Collaboration

Collaborative Compact | Healthcare Collaboration — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 15:31:35 +0000

[...] the journey to alignment of goals and values requires transparency, engagement, and co-mentoring. Collaborative Co-Mentoring implies that each person brings valuable knowledge, skills, and experience to the [...]

By: Kenneth H. Cohn

Kenneth H. Cohn — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 11:35:15 +0000

Yes, Kirsti,

It worked great in a forum of medical students, business students, and nursing students, whom we interspersed, so that each table had an assortment of students of different backgrounds.
We used a case format in which they discussed at their tables and in the group at large what to do in response to a Medicare reimbursement cut.

Here are the program director’s comments:
“I met Dr. Cohn at the AUPHA meeting the summer of 2006. After some quick brainstorming, he and I agreed to a first of its kind Symposium on Interdisciplinary Collaboration. Ken did an excellent job, in a two-hour format, involving in and illustrating the challenges faced by interdisciplinary healthcare professionals in communicating with each other. We had 90 students in attendance from various programs in the Texas Medical Center. We will be sponsoring this program annually and fully expect attendance to grow exponentially. ”
Dan Martin, Executive in Residence and Interim Program Director, University of Houston Clear Lake at Texas Medical Center

By: kirsti

kirsti — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 04:36:33 +0000

PS have you ever done this kind of co-mentoring in multidisciplinary or interdisciplinary settings?

By: kirsti

kirsti — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 04:35:31 +0000

Kenneth – I agree completely with your point of view and I think the co-mentoring, although it could be viewed as ‘foreign’ to physicians is actually something that is made that way in their training. It would be interesting to see if we took this approach in medical education, the kinds of differences it would make to both patient outcomes but also the health of our collegial relationships and therefore, our own health as professionals. I know in our surgeon communities, it is this aspect of co-mentoring that they find so valuable, as they exist in isolated practices….there’s definitely something important there!

By: Collaborative Gender Issues | Healthcare Collaboration - Improving Physician-Hospital Relations

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 02:54:30 +0000

[...] comment, “To mentor and be mentored is a part of the human DNA.” As I wrote in Collaborative Co-mentoring, a surgeon exclaimed, “We’re not stupid- we just need to be trained!” Some of our need for [...]

By: International Collaboration | Healthcare Collaboration - Improving Physician-Hospital Relations

Sun, 19 Oct 2008 20:01:59 +0000

[...] The complexity that we face today appears to require face-to-face conversations characterized by active listening: – concentration – attention to body language and tone of voice as well as avoidance [...]