When: 4 April 2023 13:00 to 4 April 2023 14:00
Where: Conférence Hybride - Inscription requise
April 4, 2023 – 1:00 to 2:00 PM
Mentoring is proposed as a key strategy to foster personal and professional growth of health care professionals (e.g., appraisal of practice) which in turn, can contribute to high quality patient care. Despite the evidence on the benefits of being a mentor, little is known about how mentoring shapes the professional practice of occupational therapists (OT). We conducted a qualitative study to explore OT mentors’ experiences of mentoring and how these impacted their roles as OTs. Twelve mentors from the McGill OT mentoring program were interviewed via Zoom. Participants described positive aspects of being a mentor, personalized direct benefits and challenges related to mentoring. Future implications should aim at finding ways to advocate for health care professionals to become mentors and to develop resources to support mentors in their roles.
Suzanne Yee Lin Mak, PhD candidate., OT(c), erg.
Associate Director & Assistant Professor (professional), School of Physical and Occupational Therapy, McGill University
Global Health and Ethics Rehabilitation (G.H.E.R) Lab
Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Rehabilitation of Greater Montreal (CRIR)
For more information on results, contact Suzanne Mak: susanne.mak@mcgill.ca
