Guided Mentorship – The Journey to Clinical Excellence, USAHS Occupational Therapy Programs
Occupational Therapy students at the University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences (USAHS) are paired with a dedicated faculty advisor when they enter the program. Advisors stay connected with students throughout their education, helping them set personal and professional goals, track their progress, and work through challenges along the way.
The support is designed to be proactive, so students can connect with their advisor before a small challenge becomes a larger one. Because every student has different goals and needs, faculty can draw on their own clinical experience across a range of OT specialties to provide guidance that is relevant to each student’s interests and career plans.
Having a consistent faculty advisor gives students someone they know they can turn to throughout the program, whether they need help navigating coursework, thinking through a career path, or finding additional support.
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Guided Mentorship – The Journey to Clinical Excellence, USAHS Occupational Therapy Programs
[00:00:00] Erin Schwier (OT Programs): One of the wonderful things that we provide as a part of our curricular experience for students is faculty advisement in, in a very specific and intentional way. So you’re assigned a faculty advisor when you come into the program, and that person is there to guide you throughout your entire experience. [00:00:19] Keith McWilliams (OT Faculty): The students will have one-on-one sessions with their faculty mentors to help them to problem solve. [00:00:24] Helen Carey (OT Faculty): And we coach our students through this new curriculum, through this new journey that they’re on. [00:00:30] Erin Schwier (OT Programs): You meet with them multiple times in a term. You set personal professional goals. They monitor your progress throughout the curriculum. [00:00:36] Helen Carey (OT Faculty): They look at where are you up to now, what courses are you finding a little bit more challenging, where do you think you are in competencies? [00:00:44] Keith McWilliams (OT Faculty): They know what occupational therapy is. They have that experience and can help the students to go in the right direction. [00:00:49] Lynn Kilburg (OT Programs): That guided mentorship is going to include discussion of what their professional goals are, where they want to go as an OT practitioner, and what things that they could do in order to help that happen. [00:01:01] Erin Schwier (OT Programs): Students are able to meet the challenge because they have that person that’s walking right alongside them to help them and assure that they are going to get the resources they need, the support they need at the time they need it, not waiting until somebody is struggling. [00:01:15] Helen Carey (OT Faculty): It makes it different because of that close collaboration we have with the students. [00:01:19] Erin Schwier (OT Programs): Not everybody needs the, the same level of support or the same resources as support. And so what the faculty coaching and faculty-guided mentorship approach allows is for individualized, customized support services for each of our students. [00:01:35] Lynn Kilburg (OT Programs): And that’s very unique here at the University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences, that we’re offering that to the students, and that they’re engaged as a partner in the process.
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