OT Fieldwork Finished for 2018!

A huge THANK YOU to each and everyone of you who were involved in supporting and/or directly supervising our OT student placements this fall!

Your generous offers for OCCTH 528 (7 weeks in Sept/Oct) and OCCTH 503 (1 week in Nov) sessions had our students engaging in a wide-range of OT practice areas and locations. Fantastic experiences!

The 'call for offers' and placement requests for our 2019 fieldwork sessions will be sent our early in the new year ... so stay tuned to HSPnet or your email inbox!

MUCH appreciated,

Cori and the UofA MscOT Clinical Education Team

Behind The Bench - FRM Community Event - Oct 28

Get the scoop on what’s involved in supporting athletes Behind the Bench! 

Sunday, Oct. 28
Molson Canadian Hockey House, Rogers Place
2:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. (game at 4:00 p.m.) 
Tickets are $20 and include the game

Register by Oct 23 by clicking here.

October is OT Month!

OTs Get Your 'Bounce' Back - FREE Professional Development Event & Module - Sept 13, 2018

Join Dr Cary Brown and colleagues on Sept 13 from 1700-2030 for ...

An evening of entertaining resiliency building activities AND celebrate the launch of “OT Bounce”, an online Continuing Professional Development learning module.

Registration is free in Calgary and Edmonton:

https://goo.gl/forms/7vXdbsaUYQl6jElW2

Teaching Resource for Preceptors

We are in the early days of OCCTH 527 (Level 3a) placements so it is an appropriate time to share this online free access article (from the CAOT OT Now archive) re:

A Teaching Resource for Preceptors of Occupational Therapy Students (D’Cunha Sequeira, 2011)

This article provides ideas for teaching/learning activities associated with each of the fieldwork competencies that are applicable at every level of fieldwork and across practice contexts.

Click here to access the article (starting on page 7).

Thank you for mentoring our Level 3a OT students in your practice settings across Alberta and Saskatchewan, as well as other Canadian provinces, and as far away as Scotland, Santa Barbara and Australia!

OCCTH 525 Wraps Up & OCCTH 527 Begins

It's such a busy time of year for our UofA fieldwork program, despite the beginning of summer holidays for so many!

We'd like to offer enormous THANKS to all the OTs who just finished providing fieldwork supervision to our Year 1 students in recent weeks during OCCTH 525 (Level 1)!

And also THANKS to the OTs who have started providing fieldwork supervision to our Year 2 students for OCCTH 527 (Level 3a) in the weeks ahead!

Here are a small selection of the 'postcards' from the field that students sent in to show us where they were and what they were doing at sites across Alberta and Saskatchewan:

Welcome to summer, everyone!

UofA OT Alumni Event Scheduled for June 22 in Vancouver BC

Your UofA Department of OT will be hosting an alumni event in Vancouver BC on June 22 to coincide with the 2018 CAOT National Conference.

RSVP here.

We hope you can join us! 

Placement Recruitment for Spring & Summer 2018

OCCTH 526 (Level 2) placements have just wrapped up for another year!

Our gratitude goes out to those of you who were in involved in hosting and supporting a Year 2 student over the last 7 weeks!

We would also like to offer thanks to all of you who have already responded to our Spring/Summer Placement Requests or 'Call for Offers' by offering a placement for our OCCTH 525 and/or OCCTH 527 placements in the months to come.

We are still needing more placement offers for the following 2 placement sessions:

OCCTH 525 - Year 1/Level 1:  May 14 – June 29 (7 weeks)

OCCTH 527 - Year 2/Level 3a:  July 3 – August 17 (or ANY 7 week period between June 18 and August 31)

We will happily accept offers for OCCTH 525 until the first week of March and for OCCTH 527 until mid-April.

To make us a placement offer (which we will not refuse!) please email or phone our Clinical Education Administrator:

(780) 492 6968

Thank you in advance!

Final Weeks of OCCTH 526 & Updated OT Fieldwork Handbook

It's the final 2 weeks of OCCTH 526 Level 2 placements for our Y2 students.

Thanks again to all of you who are working with and alongside these students to support their growth and development!

The newest revised version of our UofA OT Fieldwork Handbook is now available on the 'clinical education' pages and drop down menu on our department's website.

This comprehensive resource provides clinical educators (preceptors) and students access to all of the policies and procedures related to fieldwork.

As ever, let the Academic Coordinator of Clinical Education (ACCE) or one of the fieldwork team members know if you have any questions re: the hosting, supervision and/or evaluation of our MScOT students.

OCCTH 526 & a Free New Online Tutorial for Using the CBFE

OCCTH 526 is now underway ...

THANK YOU to each of you who are currently supervising one of our MScOT students for this Level 2 placement period!

A new, two-part, online video tutorial on using the Competency-based Fieldwork Evaluation (CBFE-OT) produced by Bossers (original CBFE author) and Ravenek from Western University is now available free of charge:

Part 1: Introduction to the CBFE-OT (23 min)

Part 2: Student Evaluation Using the CBFE-OT (28 min) 

The tutorial is meant to be helpful to you, if needed ... but not necessarily prescriptive! You may find that you have questions after viewing the videos, since there may be a bit of discrepancy between how you have used the CBFE 'historically' and what is contained in the tutorials.

If so, you are welcome to contact Cori Schmitz or another fieldwork team member for clarification!

We sure appreciate your ongoing support and involvement in the clinical education of our OT students!