Professional development through mentoring: Final evaluation of the pilot mentoring programme of the European society of radiotherapy and oncology

Steven F Petit; Daniel Portik; Azadeh Abravan; Jenny Bertholet; Dylan Callens; Ludwig Dubois; Pierfrancesco Franco; Morten Horsholt Kristensen; Pierre Montay-Gruel; Daan Nevens; Sophie Perryck; Kathrine Røe Redalen; Bartłomiej Tomasik; Amanda Webster; Jesper Grau Eriksen; Jolien Heukelom

doi:10.1016/j.radonc.2024.110226

Professional development through mentoring: Final evaluation of the pilot mentoring programme of the European society of radiotherapy and oncology

Radiother Oncol. 2024 Jun:195:110226. doi: 10.1016/j.radonc.2024.110226. Epub 2024 Mar 15.

Authors

Steven F Petit¹, Daniel Portik², Azadeh Abravan³, Jenny Bertholet⁴, Dylan Callens⁵, Ludwig Dubois⁶, Pierfrancesco Franco⁷, Morten Horsholt Kristensen⁸, Pierre Montay-Gruel⁹, Daan Nevens¹⁰, Sophie Perryck¹¹, Kathrine Røe Redalen¹², Bartłomiej Tomasik¹³, Amanda Webster¹⁴, Jesper Grau Eriksen¹⁵, Jolien Heukelom¹⁶

Affiliations

¹ yESTRO (young ESTRO) Committee of the European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology, Belgium; Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Department of Radiotherapy, the Netherlands. Electronic address: [email protected].
² yESTRO (young ESTRO) Committee of the European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology, Belgium; European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) Headquarters, Brussels, Belgium.
³ yESTRO (young ESTRO) Committee of the European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology, Belgium; Division of Cancer Sciences, School of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom; Department of Radiotherapy Related Research, Christie National Health Service (NHS) Foundation Trust, Manchester, United Kingdom.
⁴ yESTRO (young ESTRO) Committee of the European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology, Belgium; Division of Medical Radiation Physics and Department of Radiation Oncology, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital and University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
⁵ yESTRO (young ESTRO) Committee of the European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology, Belgium; Department of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
⁶ yESTRO (young ESTRO) Committee of the European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology, Belgium; The M-Lab, Department of Precision Medicine, GROW - School for Oncology and Reproduction, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands.
⁷ yESTRO (young ESTRO) Committee of the European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology, Belgium; Department of Translational Medicine (DIMET), University of Eastern Piedmont, Novara, Italy; Department of Radiation Oncology, 'Maggiore della Carità' University Hospital, Novara, Italy.
⁸ yESTRO (young ESTRO) Committee of the European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology, Belgium; Dept. of Experimental Clinical Oncology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark.
⁹ yESTRO (young ESTRO) Committee of the European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology, Belgium; Iridium Netwerk, Radiotherapy Department, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Center for Oncological Research (CORE), Antwerp Research in Radiation Oncology (AReRO), Integrated Personalized and Precision Oncology Network (IPPON), Universiteit Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium.
¹⁰ yESTRO (young ESTRO) Committee of the European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology, Belgium; Iridium Netwerk, Radiotherapy Department, Center for Oncological Research (CORE), Integrated Personalized and Precision Oncology (IPPON), University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.
¹¹ yESTRO (young ESTRO) Committee of the European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology, Belgium; Department of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
¹² yESTRO (young ESTRO) Committee of the European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology, Belgium; Department of Physics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway.
¹³ yESTRO (young ESTRO) Committee of the European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology, Belgium; Department of Oncology and Radiotherapy, Faculty of Medicine, Medical University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland.
¹⁴ yESTRO (young ESTRO) Committee of the European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology, Belgium; UCLH Radiotherapy and PBT Department, University College London Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, United Kingdom; Department of Medical Physics & Biomedical Engineering, University College London, London, United Kingdom.
¹⁵ Dept. of Experimental Clinical Oncology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark.
¹⁶ yESTRO (young ESTRO) Committee of the European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology, Belgium; Department of Radiation Oncology (Maastro), GROW - School for Oncology and Reproduction, Maastricht University Medical Centre+, Maastricht, the Netherlands.

PMID: 38492670
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2024.110226

Abstract

The European SocieTy for Radiotherapy and Oncology (ESTRO) organized a one-year pilot mentoring programme. At evaluation after one year, both mentors and mentees scored the programme with a median score of 9 on a scale of 10. All of the mentors indicated that they wanted to participate again as mentors.

Keywords: ESTRO; Mentoring programme; Professional development; Radiation oncology.

MeSH terms

Europe
Humans
Medical Oncology / education
Mentoring*
Mentors
Pilot Projects
Program Evaluation
Radiation Oncology* / education
Societies, Medical*