Status of Mentoring Among Clinical Medical and Dental Students of the College of Medical Sciences, University of Maiduguri, Nigeria

Abstract OBJECTIVES:To assess the status of mentoring among clinical dental and medical students of the College of Medical Sciences, University of Maiduguri, Northeast, Nigeria.Materials and Methods: a descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted to sample the opinions of 240 students of clinical dental and medical students. A 13-item self – self-administered, semi-structured questionnaire designed and distributed through Google Forms was used to collect information from respondents on the status of mentoring programs at the College of Medical Science. Data Collected was analyzed with the use of Microsoft Excel 2016 version, where descriptive statistics such as frequency and percentage were generated from the data.Results;of the 240 respondents studied, 187(78%) of students are aware of the college mentoring program while 31(12.9%) of students were not aware, 15(6.3%) were not sure they were aware and 5(2.1%) did not respond to the question on the mentoring program initiated in the college.Conclusion:the status of mentoring in the College of Medical Science as ongoing. The mentoring program of the college at the time of this study is active and ongoing with increased awareness among students. However, the frequency of meetings between mentor-mentee has reduced over time with a lack of protected time for mentoring.