OTA 240 - Fieldwork Experience Seminar 1

1. Demonstrate knowledge of the social determinants of heath for persons, groups, and populations with or at risk for disabilities and chronic health conditions.  This must include epidemiological factors that impact the public health and welfare of populations.
2. Understand the importance of professional responsibility to continue to improve self.  Student will identify challenges and how a plan to meet those challenges while in fieldwork.
3. Articulate the characteristic of the relationship between their Clinical Instructor and themselves as well as the Occupational Therapy and Occupational Therapy Assistant collaboration.
4. Demonstrate use of evidence base knowledge when articulating professional reasoning.
5. Become more aware with strategies/treatment techniques used in a variety of settings.
6. Identify what made their relationship with their Fieldwork Educator successful, discover what makes the collaborative approach to supervision and patient care, methods used to establish roles.
7. Understand the importance of professional responsibility to continue to improve self.  Student will identify challenges and how a plan to meet those challenges while in fieldwork.
8. Demonstrate ability to identify and meet the needs identified in their fieldwork site.
9. Articulate the role of the Occupation Therapy Assistant and Occupational Therapist in the screening and evaluation process along with the importance of and rationale for supervision and collaborative work between the occupational therapy assistant and occupational therapist is that process.
10. Participate in the documentation of ongoing process of quality management and improvement and demonstrate program changes as needed to demonstrate quality of services.

1. Demonstrate mastery of the occupational therapy foundational content requirements.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.