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OCCP5238: Developing OT Prof. Skills in Practice

2025 unit information

This unit will engage students in the process of developing professional skills within elements of the occupational therapy process. The unit will explore the integration of personal reflexivity, client's lived experience, evidence-based practice, and clinical reasoning as core capabilities in professional decision-making and the application of client-centred occupational therapy processes. Tools learned in the classroom context will be applied in a clinical simulation program (embedded in the unit). This will provide opportunities for students to reflect on their own professional behaviour and development. A professional placement completed during semester breaks will further allow students to develop and document their ongoing achievement of professional competencies in a range of appropriate practice skills.

Unit details and rules

Managing faculty or University school:

Medicine and Health

Study level Postgraduate
Academic unit Participation Sciences
Credit points 6
Prerequisites:
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OCCP5237
Corequisites:
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None
Prohibitions:
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None
Assumed knowledge:
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None

At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:

  • LO1. demonstrate professional behaviours and self-management skills appropriate to the expectations of the university and fieldwork settings;
  • LO2. explain and critically reflect upon their professional reasoning with reference to occupational therapy theory and evidence-based practice;
  • LO3. communicate with a range of audiences to achieve professional objectives and build collegial and therapeutic relationships;
  • LO4. gather and interpret information through the occupational therapy process to develop priorities with an assigned caseload.

Unit availability

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Session MoA ?  Location Outline ? 
Semester 2 2024
Normal day Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
Semester 2 2024
Professional practice Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
Session MoA ?  Location Outline ? 
Semester 2 2025
Professional practice Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
Outline unavailable
Session MoA ?  Location Outline ? 
Intensive January 2020
Professional practice Cumberland, Sydney
Outline unavailable
Intensive June 2020
Professional practice Cumberland, Sydney
Outline unavailable
Semester 2 Early 2020
Normal day Cumberland, Sydney
Intensive January 2021
Professional practice Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
Outline unavailable
Intensive January 2021
Professional practice Remote
Outline unavailable
Intensive June 2021
Professional practice Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
Outline unavailable
Intensive June 2021
Professional practice Remote
Outline unavailable
Semester 2 2021
Professional practice Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
Intensive June 2022
Professional practice Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
Outline unavailable
Semester 2 2022
Professional practice Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
Semester 2 2023
Professional practice Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney

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