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ArticleChinese neurosurgical journal2024

Planning a sustainable neurosurgery mentorship program in a war-torn country: experience from Iraq.

Teeba A Al-Ageely, Mustafa Ismail, Zinah A Alaraji, Jaafar Abdulwahid, Fatima Ayad, Huda Jaafar, Awfa Aktham, Hayder R Salih, Samer Hoz

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Article in Chinese neurosurgical journal, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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  1. Global disparities in pediatric neurosurgery research: a 20-year bibliometric analysis by country income group.Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery · 2025
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Teeba A Al-AgeelyCollege of Medicine, University of Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq.
Mustafa IsmailDepartment of Neurosurgery, Neurosurgery Teaching Hospital, Baghdad, Iraq.
Zinah A AlarajiCollege of Medicine, Al-Nahrain University, Baghdad, Iraq.
Jaafar AbdulwahidCollege of Medicine, Al-Nahrain University, Baghdad, Iraq.
Fatima AyadCollege of Medicine, University of Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq.
Huda JaafarCollege of Medicine, University of Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq.
Awfa AkthamDepartment of Neurosurgery, Tokyo General Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.
Hayder R SalihDepartment of Neurosurgery, Neurosurgery Teaching Hospital, Baghdad, Iraq.
Samer HozDepartment of Neurosurgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), Pittsburgh, PA, USA. hozsamer2055@gmail.com.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The importance of mentorships in medical education and neurosurgery is highly attributed to the support and encouragement of the advances and learning opportunities for medical students and junior neurosurgeons. Planning a mentorship program according to the target audience offers to satisfy different interests and enhance education. One of the main issues with most of the already implemented programs is the sustainability and inability to maintain continuous cycles of mentorship, which have a negative impact and have led to an interrupted pattern of learning which eventually leads to a decline in the engagement of participants and loss of interest. This problem is most pronounced in war-torn countries, with Iraq as an example, where external circumstances lead to an arrest in the educational process and a depletion of the resources useful for such programs and training courses. This paper aims to address the main pathways essential in planning a sustainable mentorship program in a war-torn country by highlighting our experience in maintaining an ongoing mentorship with nine consecutive courses over the last 6 years in Iraq.

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Medical educationMentorshipNeurosurgeryWar-torn countries

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PMCPMC11295299

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