Table 4.

Comparison of mentees’ responses from pre- and post-mentorship questionnaires (n = 30)

Question	Pre-mentorshipa	Post-mentorshipa	p valueb
Rate your interest in oncology	4.7 ± 0.5	4.7 ± 0.5	0.738
Rate your knowledge of the following:
Members of the multidisciplinary team in oncology services	3.2 ± 0.6	4.0 ± 0.8	< 0.001*
The role of medical oncologists	3.1 ± 0.8	4.0 ± 0.8	< 0.001*
The role of surgical oncologists	2.8 ± 0.9	3.4 ± 1.1	0.006
The role of clinical oncologists	2.9 ± 0.7	3.8 ± 1.1	< 0.001
The involvement of oncologists in academia/research	3.2 ± 0.8	4.0 ± 0.8	0.001*

^aData is reported as the mean value of the Likert score ± standard deviation

^bp value obtained from WSR test analysis between pre- and post-mentorship questionnaires

*Inneffective pairing as determined by Spearman correlation coefficient (one-tailed); p value confirmed on MWU test analysis between pre- and post-mentorship questionnaires