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OCCP5239: Community Based OT Fieldwork
2025 unit information
Students will work in teams to develop and implement a structured self-directed fieldwork project over the course of the semester in partnership with a community organisation. Student teams will be supported to work independently and attend regular peer and academic supervision sessions on-campus. The project will focus on enabling participation within diverse communities relevant to OT practice. In this unit study students will develop project management skills, demonstrate their application of professional reasoning and develop competency in four key OT enablement skills.
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Medicine and Health
| Study level | Postgraduate |
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| Academic unit | Participation Sciences |
| Credit points | 6 |
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Prerequisites:
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OCCP5237 and OCCP5238 |
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Corequisites:
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None |
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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. Demonstrate development of individual self-management and team collaboration in relation to the application of program theory of change to project-based fieldwork.
- LO3. Integrate data from multiple sources to self-assess competence in occupational therapy enablement with communities and use feedback to improve individual contributions, team processes, and products (e.g., output/deliverable)
- LO4. Apply evidence-informed and practice-based evidence to project design, development and/or implementation in a real-life practice context and work with community partners evaluate the strengths and limitations of both project processes and outputs/products.
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Intensive August 2025
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Professional practice | Camperdown / Darlington, Sydney |
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