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OCTH 637

OCTH 637: Professional Practice Seminar 2

Credit Hours: (1)

Integrating professional guidelines, values, and expectations into a personalized professional development plan. 

 

Content

  • Personal and Professional Responsibilities  
  • Ethics and Professional Interactions
  • Supervision of Personnel

 

Detailed Description of Conduct of Course

All MOT courses utilize instructional strategies that rely on active learning and best teaching practices.  

Additional instructional methods for each course are determined by course instructors in alignment with course content. These may include: 

  • Simulations/role-plays 
  • Student presentations 
  • Flipped classrooms 
  • Gamification 
  • Collaborative learning in teams 
  • Field/Lab experiences 
  • Guest speakers 
  • Case Studies 
  • Other 

 

Student Learning Outcomes

B.2.9 Personal and Professional Responsibilities  

Create and implement a plan to address individualized personal and professional responsibilities that are consistent with current accepted standards and long-term professional goals. The plan must address the following: personal well-being, alignment with current accepted norms in occupational therapy practice, advocacy related to clients, occupational therapy, or the role of the occupational therapist or occupational therapy assistant, long-term career objectives, and a strategy to evaluate, refine, and update the plan over time.

B.2.10. Ethics and Professional Interactions 

Demonstrate knowledge of the current published American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA) Occupational Therapy Code of Ethics and AOTA Standards of Practice and use them as a guide for ethical decision making in professional interactions, client interventions, employment settings, and when confronted with personal and organizational ethical conflicts. 

B.4.9 Supervision of Personnel  

Develop strategies for effective, competency-based legal and ethical supervision of occupational therapy practitioners and non–occupational therapy personnel.

 

Assessment Measures

Projects, assignments, competencies, and tests as appropriate.

 

Other Course Information

Additional course information provided as needed in course semester syllabi.

 

Review and Approval

November, 2020

June, 5, 2025