Skills for mentors and proteges applicable to psychiatry

The authors address the elements and dynamics involved in the life cycle of mentoring relationships applicable to psychiatry, including a proposed mod el for explicating the developmental stages experienced by participants in the process. They provide a review of the mentoring literature for use in p sychiatric education, research, and practice and offer various perspectives , describing skills for mentors, skills for proteges, the dynamics of the m entoring relationship, benefits and barriers, and issues related to gender, race, and culture.