Identifying Mentors & Sponsors as a Mid-Career Surgeons

The main issue discussed during this SOC is how to identify mentors and sponsors as a mid-career surgeon. During the first part of the session, Dr. Faisal Aziz talks about how his career started in college and medical schools.

Moreover, he highlights the main four mentors during his career, most parts of them were after attending Medical School. During this mentoring period, he learned a lot about many cases and situations, especially how to manage through in emergencies in the hospital. When you are starting your career as a doctor, you need a mentor who believes in you and motivates you to achieve your goals.

The main motivations according to Dr. Aziz are the motivation to continue the surgical career and keep with continuous training. Furthermore, enhance leadership skills and research to build new 1 things.

When it comes to a mentor role, it’s important to bear in mind that it will be someone who supports strongly us on some specific issues. Mentees also need to be challenged and helped in deciding the next steps in their career. Mentors must have a professional reputation and you must feel comfortable with them. However, mutual respect is also important the relationship can be format but also informal.

Finally, he also talks about the term coaches and the differences in comparison with mentors. Moreover, a sponsor is really important because are people who have a reputation for promoting juniors and they want to promote surgeons and your name.