Preparing Occupational Therapy Students for the Complexities of Clinical Practice

Open Journal of Occupational Therapy

Lisa J. Knecht-Sabres DHS, OTR/L¹  Mark Kovic OTD,OTR/L²  Minetta Wallingford MHS, OTR/L²  LaVonne Ellen St.Amand MPH, OTR/L² 

[1] Midwestern University - Downers Grove;Midwestern University;

关键词: OT Education;    Standardized Patients;    Case-Based Learning;    Clinical Reasoning;    Psychomotor Skills;    Fieldwork Preparation;   

DOI  :  http://dx.doi.org/10.15453/2168-6408.1047

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

This paper examined the effect of a unique amalgam of adult learning methodologies near the end of the occupational therapy (OT) students’ didactic education as a means to enhance readiness for clinical practice. Results of quantitative and qualitative data analysis indicated that the use of standardized patients, in combination with a sequential, semistructured, and progressively challenging series of client cases, in an OT adult practice (intervention) course, improved the students’ self-perception of their level of comfort and skill on various foundational, yet essential, OT-related competencies.

【 授权许可】

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