Establishment of the new undergraduate mentorship based on medical students' personal and professional development

In order to bring the aims of medical students training to success, in 2008, Shanghai Medical College of Fudan University reformed the current medical undergraduate mentorship and established a new one based on promoting students' personal and professional development. It has been implemented in Batch 2006 students of the 8-year clinical medicine program. The preliminary results suggested that the mentor would redound to student development involving understanding medical knowledge, innovation and health. At the same time, some problems and relevant solutions was proposed. Key words: Personal and professional development; Medical undergraduate; Mentorship