Journal of Pediatrics and Palliative CareJournal of Pediatrics and Palliative CareJournal of Pediatrics and Palliative CareJournal of Pediatrics and Palliative Care2690-4810Ommega Online PublishersNew Jersey, USA1368Research ArticleMentoring in Occupational therapy and Physiotherapy, its place in a Palliative Medicine multidisciplinary mentoring programMentoring in Occupational therapy and Physiotherapy, its place in a Palliative Medicine multidisciplinary mentoring programHong WeiYap 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 Editor* E-mail: HYAP005@e.ntu.edu.sg
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
20171603201721JPCPM-17-RW-008/136816022017090320172017Creative Commons Attribution LicenseThis is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. nbsp 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 rsquo 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 rsquo 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 rsquo 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 1st January 2000 to 1st 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 rsquo 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 10