Student mentoring is designed to provide each student with the support necessary to achieve academic success and professional development in the Program. During the Clinical Phase, student mentoring occurs in person or via phone or videoconferencing and is scheduled to have the least impact on the student’s clinical responsibilities for fieldwork and capstone experiences. Students are assigned to a Faculty Mentor for the Didactic and Clinical Phases of the Program. Students must meet with their assigned Faculty Mentor at least once each semester.
During the first three weeks of the first Didactic Phase semester students meet with their assigned Faculty Mentor to develop a plan for their academic success and professional development in the Program. Students continue to meet with their assigned Faculty Mentor at least once every semester to review their plan and revise it as necessary.
Student Responsibilities
- Schedule a meeting with your assigned Faculty Mentor immediately following midterm to discuss your academic and professional progress every semester in the didactic phase.
- Contact your course faculty to initiate a remediation plan and your assigned Faculty Mentor for notification of your academic performance within two (2) business days of earning a grade of < 75% on graded assignments/assessments for which remediation is required.
- Meet with your assigned Faculty Mentor as needed for other academic and/or personal concerns
- Develop a plan for academic success and professional development in the Program
- Thoughtfully complete self-assessments and discuss areas of strengths and areas for improvement when professional or academic remediation is required.
- Develop a plan for self-directed remediation of self-assessed deficits and have the plan approved by course faculty.
- Make an honest effort to follow the plans for academic success, professional development, and/or remediation of deficits.
Faculty Mentor Responsibilities
- Follow LMU and the OTD Program policies, procedures, and organizational reporting structures
- Meet with the student at least once per semester at a mutually agreed time
- Meet with the student as needed as issues arise
- Disclose to the student information from Faculty Mentor-Student meetings that may be shared with Program Faculty and/or Staff with a legitimate need to know
- Provide an objective appraisal of the student’s areas of strength and areas for improvement
- Help develop a plan for academic success and professional development in the Program
- Help develop a plan for student-directed remediation of student-assessed deficits
- Advise the student of Program policies and/or procedures related to current issues/concerns
- Make written records of Faculty Mentor-Student meetings for student files
- Provide timely access and/or referral to services addressing personal, academic, or professional issues which may impact the student’s progress in the program
The Faculty Mentor Does Not
- Solve student problems (academic and/or personal) – the Faculty Mentor helps you clarify causative factors and provide support as appropriate.
- Act as any student’s medical provider or behavioral health counselor. It is inappropriate for any Program Faculty to provide enrolled students with medical or behavioral health care or advice.