Department of Occupational Therapy, School of Rehabilitation Sciences, Iran Univer-sity of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. , Gh.fard@yahoo.com
Abstract: (1228 Views)
Background: Clinical education is a vital part of occupational therapy curriculum. Among this base on the broad settings of occupational therapy the usual terms which were used in other medical setting isn’t proper occupational therapy disciplines.
Methods: This study conducted to define the different terminology of clinical education in occupational therapy and identify the proper term in this field as a narrative review study in 2020.
Results: According to thess 136 articles which defined the clinical education in different settings and disciplines, finally the 6 articles based on the popular usage in different articles were chosen to describe the different terms.
Conclusion: Clinical Education, Clinical Supervision, Perceptorship, Mentoring, Coaching and fieldwork education are the most commonly words used synonymously in different texts, but in occupational therapy the terms fieldwork education and fieldwork educator are most common terms were used in clinical education process.
Type of Study:
Research |
Subject:
Occupational Therapy Received: 2020/08/16 | Accepted: 2019/02/21 | Published: 2019/02/21