Spain: SEDISA launches the 1st Edition of its healthcare talent mentorship program

This article was written and published in Spanish and has been translated into English via Google Translate. Click here to read the original article.

The SEDISA Foundation reaffirms its commitment to the professionalization of health managers through an innovative and pioneering project in Spain involving the training and development of professionals using mentoring techniques. Thus, through an innovative and avant-garde teaching methodology, a greater process of development and managerial learning of future management professionals of health organizations is achieved, as well as the generational change of health managers in the field is introduced and developed. of health management.

The Mentoring Project is a tool for professional development, whose objective is that those professionals with more experience who have the best practices both in knowledge and skills and in having a global vision of the organization guide the professional development of people with less experience, but with great potential. César Pascual, project coordinator of the SEDISA Foundation, says that “the know-how of these experts generated from technical books, learning by modeling and meetings (both formal and informal), acquires a special added value when mixed with the values. This is where a mentoring program acquires its greatest meaning.”

The five mentors are professionals with extensive experience in the field of health management: Domingo del Cacho (Manager of the Severo Ochoa Hospital), Modoaldo Garrido (Manager of the Alcorcón Foundation University Hospital), José Soto (Manager of the Madrid Clinical Hospital), Ricardo Trujillo (Manager of the Hospital de Manises and the Department of Health 23 of the Valencian Community) and Andión Goñi (Director of Nursing at the 12 de Octubre University Hospital). On the other hand, the mentors selected by the Board of Trustees of the SEDISA Foundation and the Committee of Alumni of SEDISA (ALSEDISA), have very heterogeneous profiles, with previous experience and / or training in management, come from all the Spanish demography.

The first training meeting took place during two working days and brought together mentors on the one hand and mentors on the other to train each group, as well as some joint training for the development of the program. Some of the contents that were developed in the formations were: what is mentoring, what are the qualities of the mentor and the mentor, mentoring tools for the development of the project, protocols and techniques for sessions, roles of the protagonists, analysis and validation of session contents and the initial mentoring meeting. At the end of this training part, the two students mentoring each mentor have been informed and the first team meeting has been developed to mark some of the objectives in which the mentors will work during the program, and start scheduling the following meetings. The common issues that will be addressed during the mentor-mentorized meetings will revolve around four general themes as main axes: change and innovation management, strategic communication and institutional relations, people management and digital transformation.

On the other hand, each particular mentor and trainee will also be followed, in addition to the six training sessions they will have with their mentor in one-to-one format and sometimes in groups with the other mentored students.

In this first edition, the project is made up of 5 mentors who tutor ten mentors and where new communication skills are worked, as well as the art of developing the potential of others and transferring knowledge and experience.

"It will offer great benefits to mentors and mentors, as well as a contribution and transfer of knowledge of great personal and professional value. “This Mentoring project develops an enriching exchange for both parties, mentors and mentors,” explains Joaquín Estévez, President of SEDISA and SEDISA Foundation. "The SEDISA Foundation will grant six SEDISA partners to acquire technical skills and health management skills in our country, which is a very necessary task to develop and implement the training of future health managers in our country."

The program has just started and according to César Pascual, project coordinator of the SEDISA Foundation:

“The deal with professionals, the relationship with other managers, the strategic understanding of the processes, the values, the institutional fit, the interaction with authorities […] make up an important part of the managerial baggage, where the deep and critical knowledge of an organization and the best practices constitute the differential facts of its management.”

All mentors and mentors were highly involved in the training provided, as well as showed great interest and enthusiasm with the program that will take place until October 2020.

This article was written and published in Spanish and has been translated into English via Google Translate. Click here to read the original article.