IMPORTANT MENTOR BEHAVIORS FOR MEDICAL STUDENTS:ATTACHMENT THEORY AND MENTORING SYSTEMS

Introduction: Especially in health related sciences, education urges students have positive attitudes, personal integrity and self-reflection capacity Mentoring relationship is one of the areas where students learn, practice and emulate these abilities. Attachment theory may provide insight about the quality of and expectancies in these relationships. Material & Methods: Three-hundered-seventy-five students (mean age=20.5, Sd=1,3) from two different medical faculties filled the information form, relationships questionnaires and questions about the importance of mentor behaviours in one setting. Results: Students from formal mentoring program have higher rate of having a mentoring relationship. Women gave more importance to motivation function of the mentors. Secure attachment score had positive correlation with academic guidance and mutual respect functions of mentoring relationship. Dismissing attachment score was negatively correlated with all mentor functions. Discussion: Handling these variables above in the realm of mentoring relationship may provide opportunities to match mentor-mentee pairs more appropriately, to determine the program type, to detect differences in needs among preclinical years and orient the ment？rs and mentees in the programs