Browsing by Subject "Occupational Therapy"

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    Targeted Muscle Reinnervation and Occupational Therapy in various rehabilitation settings
    (2008) Swanson, Shawn
    Targeted Muscle Reinnervation (TMR) is a new surgical technique for transhumeral or higher levels of upper extremity limb loss. The rehabilitation team at RIC has seen great success with their patients. RIC has a unique opportunity in their research environment as it allows for close supervision with socket modifications, therapy training and component/software program management (prosthetists, engineers, and therapists on site and patient attends training for several hours a day for an extended time period).
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    Threading the needle: when embroidery was used to treat shell-shock.
    (Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps, 2018-09) Davidson, Jonathan
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    Toward Robust Assessments of Student Knowledge of Occupation.
    (The American journal of occupational therapy : official publication of the American Occupational Therapy Association, 2021-03) Price, Pollie; Hooper, Barb; Krishnagiri, Sheama; Wood, Wendy; Taff, Stephen D; Bilics, Andrea

    Importance

    Occupational therapy students must master knowledge of occupation, yet how educators assess such knowledge has not been explored. In this study, we elucidate robust assessment practices that can help students master knowledge of occupation.

    Objective

    To examine practices that educators use to assess knowledge of occupation.

    Design

    Basic qualitative research. Using inductive and constant comparative methods, we coded 25 interviews and 82 educational artifacts for assessment practices, categorized practices as direct or indirect, and analyzed their alignments with features of robust assessments.

    Setting

    Twenty-five randomly selected occupational therapy and occupational therapy assistant academic programs in the United States, stratified by geographic region and institution type.

    Participants

    Twenty-nine educators who represented selected programs.

    Results

    We found occupation at instruction and program levels primarily in relation to practice using indirect more than direct practices. Assignments were often highly creative and experiential, yet varied in their alignments with established criteria of robust assessments.

    Conclusions and relevance

    Knowledge of occupation was often intertwined with practice-oriented learning experiences and skills; hence, it was not assessed as a distinctly indispensable learning outcome. Educators can build on current practices to design robust assessments that require students to demonstrate knowledge of occupation in practice contexts and everyday life.

    What this article adds

    In this study, we elucidate a continuum of prevalent educational practices used to assess knowledge of occupation; we also review best practices for robust assessments of such knowledge not only related to practice but also as a dynamic instrument of individual and societal well-being more broadly.