Introduction: Mentoring represents a planned path, a leadership process, counseling and a relationship between a mentor and an individual/student in which the tutor's characteristic features play a very important role. In mentoring, we can use different leadership styles, we know: commanding, family or friendship, resonance and factory style of leadership. Both the mentor and the student, in order to obtain a good final result, need motivation or causes and/or motivational factors that are discussed by different motivational theories. Purpose: To determine the opinion of students of radiology technology of the second and third year about mentors and the factors that motivate them in clinical exercises and practice, and what this means for their profession. Methods of work: A survey questionnaire was used as a measurement instrument of the quantitative method. The survey was carried out by 37 students of the second and third year of radiology technology at the Faculty of Medicine in Ljubljana, who performed clinical exercises and practice at the Department of Mammography, Dentistry, CT, MR, Nuclear Medicine and Radiotherapy. Results: After data processing, we found that mentors are assessed as persons with positive attributes, with the dominance of the factory and the corporate style of mentoring. The students are motivated by the atmosphere at the workplace, and they feel that they have been enthusiastically trained in clinical practice and practice for further professional work, while shortening the trainership does not bring about positive changes for them. Discussion and conclusion: The mentors are described with the following adjectives: friend, guide and counselor, the results of our research confirm this, as students generally have a positive opinion about mentors and mentoring in clinical exercises and practice, motivated by positive factors at work and are largely happy with the chosen profession. However, they do not have a positive opinion about the shortage of traineeship.
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