"Mentoring" : a vigorous scaffold in medical education. Join us to deploy it

Pursuing the journey to becoming a doctor is notoriously quite difficult to succeed, and even more difficult to succeed on your own. Although the medical education landscape has seen innovations to maximize the path to success, students often encounter challenges throughout their learning and discovery of their future profession. As such, they must be offered supportive opportunities that help them counter difficulties, realize their goals, and excel in their highly chosen vocation. In response, mentoring is a real springboard for support from experienced peers, a scaffolding for growth through guiding models that are not available in curricular manuals. By sharing their experience, the mentor prunes and enriches the mentee, solidifies their knowledge and academic and socio-professional skills, allowing them to evolve towards their own full potential. Through this pairing that adapts to circumstances, meeting students with what they need, when they need it, mentoring supports the medical career path. Although the recognized importance of the concept is not new, it is rarely the subject of reinforcement in our framework. The objective of this review is to explore the current literature reporting on mentoring in the field of medical education to advance its growth and development.