This year 1 15 credit module will introduce you to occupational therapy professional practice. You will learn about what it means to be an occupational therapist, including the statutory and professional requirements and frameworks, the history and philosophy of the occupational therapy profession, in order to help you establish your professional identity. You will develop occupational therapy specific and generic knowledge and skills required of healthcare practitioners.
You will begin to generate and collate evidence of personal and professional development for inclusion within a personal continual professional development (CPD) e-portfolio. This will use the guidance provided within the RCOT career development framework (2017b) and the HCPC audit process.
Development of your professional identity and the required knowledge and skills will be achieved through a mixed style of learning and teaching strategies including keynote lectures, tutor facilitated seminars, on-line learning, participating in simulated learning activities, directed study and through undertaking a part-time placement of 12 weeks within an occupational therapy practice setting. This module also includes a personal development tutorial with the student’s allocated academic advisor.
Learning is assessed via three components. These include:-
1. A practical exam (OSPE)
2. Assessment of competencies within the practice placement
3. A critical written reflection
All three components of assessment must be passed. Components 1 & 3 must be passed at 50%. The placement element is pass/fail.