Friday, January 18, 2019

A New Year of Fieldwork Has Begun

Our sincere thanks to all of you who are currently hosting and involved in the supervision of our Year 2 OT students!

These students are completing their Level 2 placement from Jan 7 - Feb 22 within an impressive range of practices, organizations and services across Alberta, Saskatchewan and British Columbia.

The 'call for offers' for placements that are needed for the spring (Level 1) and summer (Level 3a) sessions is also underway.

10 + 1 Reasons For You To Make Students An Offer they Can't Refuse!
(Drynan, OT Now, CAOT, 2013)

  1. Learning from students who bring new ideas and current thinking to your workplace
  2. Stimulates your reflective practice and clinical reasoning skills
  3. Enhances your professional development opportunities
  4. Develops professional skills, such as time management and priority setting
  5. Provides an opportunity to share expertise with and recruit future colleagues
  6. Creates and improves your links with universities
  7. Enhances your reputation within your workplace
  8. Increases productivity and access to OT for clients
  9. Develops teaching skills
  10. Deeply rewarding for all involved
  11. Scholarship of practice

Please be in touch with us if you are interested in offering a placement:

otclined@ualberta.ca