title: The Munich-Evaluation-of-Mentoring-Questionnaire (MEMeQ)--a novel instrument for evaluating protégés' satisfaction with mentoring relationships in medical education.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Despite the widespread recognition of the importance of mentoring in medical education, valid and reliable instruments for evaluating the relationship of mentors and protégés are lacking. The aim of this study was to develop a feasible instrument to measure the satisfaction with mentoring relationships.
  
  
  METHODS
  Based on two existing questionnaires, the authors developed an instrument to evaluate the weighted satisfaction of mentoring relationships, emphasizing the protégés' individual expectations and needs. Protégés first define individual areas of interest in their mentoring relationship, then assign relative levels of personal importance to them and finally rate their individual level of satisfaction with their mentors' support in each area of interest. In order to evaluate psychometric properties as well as acceptance and feasibility the investigators conducted a multi-method-study.
  
  
  RESULTS
  134 protégés were included in the study. The instrument was neither perceived as distressing nor time-consuming. The two scores of the questionnaire correlated closely with the overall satisfaction regarding mentoring relationships (OSM, Rho: 0.66, p <.001 and Rho: 0.53, p < .001).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The authors propose MEMeQ as a reliable, valid and flexible instrument for measuring the weighted satisfaction of protégés with their individual mentoring relationship in medical education. Further research is needed to evaluate the generalizability of MEMeQ across other institutions and mentoring programs to add to its validity.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Didaktik und Ausbildungsforschung in der Medizin, Klinikum der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU), Munich, Germany. Schaefer.Matthias@campus.lmu.de.
authors.forename: Matthias
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Schäfer
authors.affiliation: Institut für Didaktik und Ausbildungsforschung in der Medizin, Klinikum der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU), Munich, Germany. Tanja.Pander@med.uni-muenchen.de.
authors.forename: Tanja
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Pander
authors.affiliation: Institut für Didaktik und Ausbildungsforschung in der Medizin, Klinikum der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU), Munich, Germany. severin.pinilla@gmx.de.|Department of Neurology, Munich University Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU), Munich, Germany. severin.pinilla@gmx.de.
authors.forename: Severin
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Pinilla
authors.affiliation: Institut für Didaktik und Ausbildungsforschung in der Medizin, Klinikum der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU), Munich, Germany. Martin.Fischer@med.uni-muenchen.de.
authors.forename: Martin R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Fischer
authors.affiliation: Medizinische Klinik und Poliklinik IV, Klinikum der Universität München, Ziemssenstr. 1, 80336, München, Deutschland. philip.von.der.borch@med.lmu.de.
authors.forename: Philip
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: von der Borch
authors.affiliation: Institut für Didaktik und Ausbildungsforschung in der Medizin, Klinikum der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU), Munich, Germany. Konstantin.Dimitriadis@med.uni-muenchen.de.|Department of Neurology, Munich University Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU), Munich, Germany. Konstantin.Dimitriadis@med.uni-muenchen.de.
authors.forename: Konstantinos
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Dimitriadis
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002983:Clinical Competence; D004501:Education, Medical / Q000379:methods; D005260:Female; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D008297:Male; D008611:Mentors; D010549:Personal Satisfaction; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires