ANALISIS DE LA ENTREVISTA A DAVID SANTILLAN

Diagnosis of Problems Related to Occupational Performance and Participation (2 credits)

Entry-level Doctorate/Post professional Doctorate

Focuses on development and implementation of evidence-based therapy guidelines across a variety of settings. Emphasis is placed on the phases and steps of the complex process used to systematically develop best- practice recommendations for specific patient/client populations including screening, evaluation, diagnosis, prognosis, plan of care, intervention, and outcomes assessment.

Transforming Knowledge into Professional Engagement (2 credits)

Entry level Doctorate

Requires students to use evidence-based reasoning to analyze, synthesize, evaluate, and diagnose problems related to occupational performance and participation. Lectures support extrapolation to a population based OT intervention that addresses occupational needs as identified by a community.

To accomplish this, students have the following two options described below.

Fieldwork Proposal Option: students are encouraged to identify clinically relevant questions embedded within specific intervention contexts. Students develop a proposal concerning a focused research project that could be implemented at one of their fieldwork sites. The final proposal is graded pass/fail. Students must pass their Fieldwork II experience to pass the course.

Research Project Option: students apply and are accepted into a mentored scholarship sequence culminating in a specific research project as an alternative to the fieldwork proposal option. Students interested in learning more advanced research process skills than afforded through the fieldwork proposal process can apply to engage in this research project

sequence. Across 17 months, faculties elect to apprentice a small number of invited graduate students in their current research programs. While student engagement in each project varies based on the current stage of

development of the faculty’s research project, all experience some activity related to the institutional review board, data collection, and report generation and dissemination. The class is a mentored scholarly experience.

Writing for Presentation and Publication (2 credits)

Entry level Doctorate

Requires students who select the Fieldwork Proposal Option to submit their proposals for faculty review and prepare their proposal for professional presentation. Students then offer the final proposal back to the original clinical site.

Advanced Clinical reasoning (3 credits)

Entry-level doctorate/ Post-professional doctorate

Introduces students to Occupational Therapists’ expertise in narrative inquiry and occupational story telling commonly reported by authors in occupational therapy and occupation science literature. This course will foster mentor- mentee relationships between our entry-level and post-professional doctoral students and support faculty-led cooperative learning groups across the department and the College. Students conduct in-depth analysis and presentation of their clinical reasoning processes and integration of occupation in achieving therapeutic outcomes. Through participation in active learning activities, students demonstrate evidence that supports the central therapeutic processes that comprise Occupational Therapy practice including the meaning of illness and the impact of family and social and physical contexts. Students learn to differentiate the philosophical constructs relevant to the biomedical and phenomenological aspects of Occupational Therapy practice and to make judgments about the nature of the good in a particular case.

Directed Independent Study I (1 credit hour)

Entry level Doctorate

Requires students to integrate the AOTA Occupational Therapy Practice Framework with critical analysis of selected literature to determine best practice for evaluation, intervention and outcome assessment for a client observed receiving services in their Specialty Track. Following this analysis, students explain why the occupational therapy philosophical base and models of practice are relevant to recipients of services in their specialty area of practice. They describe the socio-political environment of service

provision to demonstrate their understanding of the context and management of service delivery and generalize their understandings to the broader context of organizations and populations. Students conclude the Independent Study with a reflective narrative about their personal beliefs in the positive

relationship between occupation and health and their view of people as occupational beings.

Directed Independent Study 2 (1 credit hour)

Entry level Doctorate

Requires students to complete a culminating project that relates theory to practice and demonstrates synthesis of advanced knowledge in a practice area.

Specialty Track Courses for entry-level

Doctor of Occupational Therapy degree (13 credit hours)

The goal of the entry-level doctorate specialty program is to develop occupational therapists with advanced knowledge and skills in a specialty area of practice. These courses address advanced aspects of the curriculum unique to entry-level doctoral preparation.

Summary of Doctoral Specialty Tracks

Rehabilitation, Disability and Participation is an occupational therapy course that integrates our three specialty areas of practice into the general

curriculum. The course includes three weeks of instruction in each specialty area including:

 Vision Rehabilitation

 Leadership, Education, and Health Policy  Health and Wellness

Following this course, doctoral students request their specialty track. Students complete a minimum of 13 credit hours in their selected specialty, two advanced occupational therapy directed independent study courses, including a culminating project, and successfully pass the doctoral practicum. Students declare a specialty track prior to the fall semester of the second year of the program and follow an integrated sequence of courses culminating in the doctoral practicum.

Specialty Courses (13 credit hours)

Entry-level Doctorate/Post professional Doctorate

Requires students to integrate interdisciplinary knowledge and skills to an area of practice in settings where occupational therapy is currently practiced and where it is emerging as a service. All specialty tracks include a

mentored doctoral practicum experience.

Based on the strengths of the College and the University, there are three specialty areas:

Vision Rehabilitation (three tracks) Leadership, Education and Health Policy Health and Wellness