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

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!