The London Orthopeadic unit would like to introduce a new program to assist members to acquire their required mentorship hours prior to sitting the intermediate and advanced orthopeadic exams.

Mentor- senior therapist

Mentee- junior therapist

The program involves mentees "applying" to the London Orthopeadic Unit's PODCR (Pat Darling) to indicate that they would like to take part. The program will be set up in a 4:1 Mentee to Mentor ratio.

The cost of the session will be $13/ hour of supervised mentoring and will be paid to the LOU's PODCR (If the ratio is less that 4:1, then it will cost the student more money)

• Sessions will be at least 4 hours long- 3 hours for patient care and 1 hour debriefing at the end of the session for questions and problem solving
• 4 appropriate patients will be organized by the therapist and will be available for at least 1.5 hours at that Mentor's clinic or an approved alternative venue
• There will be two sets of two students. Each pair of students will have up to 90 minutes to perform a full subjective and objective assessment.
• One student will be the primary therapist for the first patients and the second student will be the primary therapist for the second patient (the secondary therapist can record for the primary as well as have input at appropriate times)
• The mentor will move between the two concurrent assessment sessions, be available for consultation at all times and will NOT be treating other patients at this time
• Following the subjective assessment, the subjective clinical reasoning form will be filled out
• Following the objective assessment, before the treatment portion begins, the objective clinical reasoning form will be completed
• Up to 4 sessions per 4 month period may be arranged by the secretary of the London Ortho unit per student (Sept to Dec, Jan-April, May to Aug)
• A completed case booklet will be mailed to the Mentor following the session

The PODCR (Pat Darling) will:

• keep current list of Mentors,
• contact for prospective Mentees,
• organize groups of four Mentees to attend sessions with mentors
• keep track of Mentees hours

Mentee's Responsibilities:

• contact the LOU secretary to arrange for mentoring hours
• provide proof of valid college license and proof of malpractice insurance
• contact the appropriate mentor before the assigned session to confirm session time, date and place
• arrive 15 minutes prior to session for orientation
• fill out subjective clinical reasoning form before beginning objective
• fill out objective clinical reasoning form before beginning treatment
• consult with the Mentor and view images, reports other information before beginning treatment
• complete case booklet and send to Mentor for marking

Mentor Responsibilities:

• organize 4 appropriate patients for the mentoring session- can be patients that the therapist has seen before to ensure appropriateness
• review subjective and objective clinical reasoning forms
• ensure that the patients have signed the consent form (attached)
• make every possible effort to have radiographs, MRI, specialist reports/films etc. for review after, not before the objective assessment
• ensure that an appropriate area of a clinic is set aside for this session (not in an open concept clinic with several other therapists working at the same time)- ideally a private room
• ensure that no other patients will be seen in the clinic while the session is taking place
• Provide 1 hour of instruction following the assessment sessions
• mark return case study booklets to Mentees

Documents of interest:

• Mentorship Application Form
• Blank Case Booklet
• Questions to be Completed After the Subjective Assessment
• Questions to be Completed After the Objective Assessment

For More information or to enroll in the program please contact Pat Darling (); Steve Di Ciacca will be CC'd automatically.