Challenges of mentorship

Mentorship is the fourteenth series of ‘Midwifery basics’ targeted at practising midwives. It aims to provide information to raise awareness of the impact of the work of midwives on student learning and ultimately on women’s experience and encourage midwives to seek further information through a series of activities. In this sixth article Charlotte Kenyon, Stephen Hogarth and Joyce Marshall consider some of the challenges to mentorship and possible solutions to these.