Table 1.
Details of the 4 mentorship programmes involved in this article.
Fig 1.
An overview of the rules and the relationships between them.
The key considerations for establishing a mentorship programme can broadly be grouped into 3 categories, namely aspects necessary to consider when designing a mentorship programme; mentor and mentee topics; and operation frameworks. These considerations all rely on a crucial understanding of the long-term sustainability of the programme. The rules should not be viewed as sequential or linear as there is a large amount of interconnectivity between them.