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the importance of mentors in med-ical education. These researchers followed a cohort of German-speaking Swiss resident doctors during postgraduate specialty train-ing. The researchers found a com-pelling relationship between having one or more mentors and both subjective and objective career suc-cess. Previous studies have also reported positive relationships be-tween mentoring and other out-comes, including productivity,2 job satisfaction,3 career preparation4 and workplace learning.5,