Affiliation

• ¹Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Singapore
• ²Assisi Hospice, Singapore
• ³Department of Palliative Medicine, National Cancer Center, Singapore
• ⁴Nanyang Polytechnic, Singapore
• ⁵Department of Medical Oncology, National Cancer Center, Singapore
• ⁶Duke-NUS Postgraduate Medical School, Singapore
• ⁷Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, Singapore
• ⁸Center for Biomedical Ethics, National University Singapore

Corresponding Author

Toh Ying Pin, Division of Palliative Medicine, National Cancer Center Singapore, 11 Hospital Drive, Singapore 169610, Singapore, Tel: +6564368183; E-mail: ann.typ@gmail.com

Citation

Yap,H.W., et al Thematic Review of Mentoring in Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy between 2000 and 2015, Sitting Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy in A Holistic Palliative Medicine Multidisciplinary Mentoring Program. (2017) J Palliat Care Pain Manage 2(1): 1- 10

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Abstract

Background: Mentoring develops attitudes and skills in caring for patients at the end-of-life yet it is not formally employed in most Palliative Medicine programs. In part these gaps are the result of a failure to account for mentoring’s context-specific, goal-sensitive, mentee-, mentor- and organizationally-dependent nature that prevent simple adaptations of mentoring practices across sites and a lack of consideration of Palliative Medicine’s multidimensional team (MDT) approach that demands use of a consistent mentoring approaches by the senior members MDT who come from different clinical and healthcare backgrounds. A dearth of mentoring data in physiotherapy and occupational therapy however threatens these plans for a consistent Palliative Medicine mentoring approach.
Aim: Circumnavigating mentoring’s context-specific, goal-sensitive, mentee, mentor and organizationally-dependent nature this thematic review seeks to identify common themes through the identification of common themes within prevailing mentoring practices in physiotherapy and occupational therapy that can be applied in other mentoring settings.
Methodology: Literature search for mentoring programs in physiotherapy and occupational therapy was carried out in PubMed, ERIC, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Medline, Scopus, OVID, CINAHL and Education Source databases from 1^st January 2000 to 1^st January 2015. Studies of all designs and approaches to mentoring were included. We excluded mentoring for leadership, patient, family, youth, peer and near-peer mentoring, supervision, counseling, advising, coaching, preceptorship, role modeling and sponsorship.
Results: In physiotherapy, 1505 abstracts were retrieved, 46 full-text articles were analyzed and 6 papers were included in this review. In occupational therapy, 3407 abstracts were retrieved, 44 full-text articles were analyzed and 5 papers were included in this review. Separate thematic analysis of physiotherapy and occupational therapy papers revealed 3 common themes which include (1) defining mentoring, (2) benefits of mentoring and (3) mentors and mentees’ perspective about the mentoring process.
Conclusion: Common features within prevailing mentoring programs in physiotherapy and occupational therapy underlines their role within multidisciplinary team mentoring in palliative medicine.