The Value Of Being A Mentor

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Kelsey: Hi, guys, I’m Kelsey Swope. I am the mentor services occupational therapy coordinator here at FOX.

Marueen: Hi, I’m Maureen Rinda. I am a physical therapist and regional director in Pennsylvania and the Lehigh Valley.

Theresa: Hi, my name’s Theresa Giuntini, and I’m a physical therapist and the regional director for Maryland.

Jenn: Hi, my name is Jenn Ruoff. I am the director of occupational therapy clinical services here at FOX Rehab.

Chris: Hi, I’m Chris Pendleton, regional director and physical therapist in Virginia.

Katy: Hi, I’m Katy Kobel. I’m a regional director in Maryland.

Heather: I’m Heather Cronin. I am the mentor services coordinator at FOX.

Kelsey: One of the things that I value most about mentoring is being able to provide a new clinician the experience to succeed within our profession and to be able to also give back to our profession.

Maureen: As a director, I value our mentor program because it allows us to facilitate and integrate new young clinicians into our practice in a very successful way.

Theresa: I really enjoyed being a mentor because it helps share knowledge and experience with new clinicians. There’s so much about our profession that you just don’t learn in school. So I love the fact that you could model what it’s like to live that FOX culture and be a great clinician. At the same time, I find the best way to learn something is to teach it. So I’ve grown professionally so much to be a mentor.

Jenn: The value of mentoring to me is the opportunity to be able to effectively coach and teach somebody through different perceptions of their profession, whether it be looking at developing them professionally, coaching them through difficult situations, or even the ability to be able to collaborate as a mentor.

You’re working with this colleague to be able to build on different functional components that will allow you to carry it out throughout your profession.

Chris: Being a mentor has allowed me to develop a better relationship with our local university, Shenandoah University, and help out with students in a teaching capacity and also learn and grow as a clinician in a daily practice and interventions.

Theresa: To me, the value of mentoring is, in any organization, your main goal is just to be able to provide feedback to the new graduate clinicians on how to become a skilled clinician.

Heather: So one of the biggest benefits that I find from mentoring new grads and taking students has been the challenge to improve my clinical skills and really think critically about how I’m treating my patients, as well as giving back to the profession by encouraging new grads to find excitement in treating the geriatric population and really treating this population with the best clinical evidence that’s out there and really challenging them from a clinical perspective.