Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe the philosophical base of the profession of Occupational Therapy
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Define Occupational Therapy
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Identify the unique non-clinical and clinical roles of an occupational therapist
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Interpret meaning of occupation and its value to health and well-being
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Identify the domain and process of occupational therapy
Audience: Undergraduate

6. Identify professional behaviors essential to the practice of occupational therapy
Audience: Undergraduate

7. Describe the educational requirements and applicable national and state credentialing involved in becoming an occupational therapist
Audience: Undergraduate

8. Identify how evidence based research impacts occupational therapy
Audience: Undergraduate

9. Evaluate whether your personal goals and values align with the core tenets of occupational therapy and evaluate occupational therapy as a personal career choice
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Find and name anatomical structures, regions, and systems critical in clinical practice.
Audience: Graduate

2. Integrate anatomical and biomechanical principles to explain occupational function and dysfunction.
Audience: Graduate

3. Predict symptomatic presentation given atypical anatomy.
Audience: Graduate

4. Assess signs and symptoms related to clinical presentations commonly observed by occupational therapists.
Audience: Graduate

5. Critically appraise clinical cases with the goal of forming and defending your opinion about function, pathology and occupational performance.
Audience: Graduate

6. Create a representation of anatomical structures, functions and networks that further the understanding of lay individuals
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Explain the process of theory development in occupational therapy and its desired impact and influence on society
Audience: Graduate

2. Provide recommendations and training in techniques to enhance functional mobility, including physical transfers, wheelchair management, and mobility devices
Audience: Graduate

3. Recall primary characteristics of the Person-Environment-Occupation (PEO) model of occupational therapy
Audience: Graduate

4. Discuss activity analysis in the context of personal occupations.
Audience: Graduate

5. Identify how various functional movements relate to occupational performance.
Audience: Graduate

6. Recall various anatomical structures and medical terminology.
Audience: Graduate

7. Demonstrate introductory assessment, including palpatory skills, related to anatomical movements and structures.
Audience: Graduate

8. Appreciate the physical body as a diverse, self-healing mechanism and value the power of physical contact as a tool for healing
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Recognize primary characteristics of various medical and surgical conditions relative to occupational therapy practice.
Audience: Graduate

2. Identify how different medical conditions impact occupational performance.
Audience: Graduate

3. Demonstrate sound judgment in regard to safety of self and others and adhere to safety regulations throughout the occupational therapy process as appropriate to the setting and scope of practice. This must include the ability to assess and monitor vital signs (e.g., blood pressure, heart rate, respiratory status, and temperature) to ensure that the client is stable for intervention.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Recognize primary characteristics of various clinical and surgical conditions relative to occupational therapy practice in mental health and pediatric practice settings.
Audience: Graduate

2. Identify how different pediatric and mental health clinical conditions impact occupational performance.
Audience: Graduate

3. Demonstrate sound judgment in regard to safety of self and others and adhere to safety regulations throughout the occupational therapy process as appropriate to the setting and scope of practice. This must include the ability to assess and monitor vital signs (e.g., blood pressure, heart rate, respiratory status, and temperature) to ensure that the client is stable for intervention.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Demonstrate entry-level clinical reasoning, provide service that reflects the values and ethical beliefs of the profession, and perform professionally, safely and competently for general occupational therapy practice as evidenced by passing the AOTA Fieldwork Performance Evaluation for the Occupational Therapy Student (AOTA FWPE) by final
Audience: Graduate

2. Understand the influence of psychosocial factors on participation in occupation and therefore integrate client-centered, meaningful, occupation-based activities that provide optimal outcomes.
Audience: Graduate

3. Demonstrate understanding of health literacy while engaging with clients and stakeholders.
Audience: Graduate

4. Demonstrate ability to plan for discharge, in collaboration with the client, by reviewing the needs of the client, caregiver, family, and significant others; available resources, and discharge environment.
Audience: Graduate

5. Prepare, administer, and terminate appropriate evaluations and occupation-based treatment using appropriate safety regulations while providing appropriate documentation (progress note, evaluation, etc.) according to specific facility standards
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Demonstrate entry-level clinical reasoning, provide service that reflects the values and ethical beliefs of the profession, and perform professionally, safely and competently for general occupational therapy practice.
Audience: Graduate

2. Understand the influence of psychosocial factors on participation in occupation and therefore integrate client-centered, meaningful, occupation-based activities that provide optimal outcomes.
Audience: Graduate

3. Demonstrate understanding of health literacy while engaging with clients and stakeholders.
Audience: Graduate

4. Demonstrate ability to plan for discharge, in collaboration with the client, by reviewing the needs of the client, caregiver, family, and significant others; available resources, and discharge environment.
Audience: Graduate

5. Prepare, administer, and terminate appropriate evaluations and occupation-based treatment using appropriate safety regulations while providing appropriate documentation (progress note, evaluation, etc.) according to specific facility standards.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Explain the process of theory development in occupational therapy and its desired impact and influence on society.
Audience: Graduate

2. Apply, analyze, and evaluate the interaction of occupation and activity, including areas of occupation, performance skills, performance patterns, context(s) and environments, and client factors.
Audience: Graduate

3. Demonstrate activity analysis in areas of occupation, performance skills, performance patterns, context(s) and environments, and client factors to formulate the intervention plan.
Audience: Graduate

4. Demonstrate knowledge of the use of technology in practice, which must include, electronic documentation systems, virtual environments, and Telehealth technology.
Audience: Graduate

5. Demonstrate knowledge of the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA) Occupational Therapy Code of Ethics and AOTA Standards of Practice and use them as a guide for ethical decision making in professional interactions, client interventions, employment settings, and when confronted with personal and organizational ethical conflicts.
Audience: Graduate

6. Promote occupational therapy by educating other professionals, service providers, consumers, third-party payers, regulatory bodies, and the public.
Audience: Graduate

7. Apply, analyze, and evaluate scientific evidence, theories, models of practice, and frames of reference that underlie the practice of occupational therapy to guide and inform interventions for persons, groups, and populations in a variety of practice contexts and environments.
Audience: Graduate

8. Demonstrate clinical reasoning to evaluate, analyze, diagnose, and provide occupation- based interventions to address client factors, performance patterns, and performance skills.
Audience: Graduate

9. Analyze and evaluate occupational therapy history, philosophical base, theory, and sociopolitical climate and their importance in meeting society’s current and future occupational needs as well as how these factors influence and are influenced by practice.
Audience: Graduate

10. Identify and evaluate the systems and structures that create federal and state legislation and regulations and their implications and effects on persons, groups, and populations, as well as practice and policy.
Audience: Graduate

11. Provide care and programs that demonstrate knowledge of applicable national requirements for credentialing and requirements for licensure, certification, or registration consistent with federal and state laws.
Audience: Graduate

12. Demonstrate knowledge of how the role of a professional is enhanced by participating and engaging in local, national, and international leadership positions in organizations or agencies.
Audience: Graduate

13. Identify and develop strategies for ongoing professional development to ensure that practice is consistent with current and accepted standards.
Audience: Graduate

14. Explain to consumers, potential employers, colleagues, third-party payers, regulatory boards, policymakers, and the general public the distinct nature of occupation and the evidence that occupation supports performance, participation, health, and well-being.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Demonstrate knowledge of various reimbursement systems and funding mechanisms (e.g., federal, state, third party, private payer), appeals mechanisms, treatment/diagnosis codes (e.g., CPT®, ICD, DSM® codes), and coding and documentation requirements that affect consumers and the practice of occupational therapy. Documentation must effectively communicate the need and rationale for occupational therapy services.
Audience: Graduate

2. Demonstrate therapeutic use of self, including one’s personality, insights, perceptions, and judgments, as part of the therapeutic process in both individual and group interaction.
Audience: Graduate

3. Identify occupational needs through effective communication with patients, families, communities, and members of the interprofessional team in a responsive and responsible manner that supports a team approach to the promotion of health and wellness.
Audience: Graduate

4. Demonstrate, evaluate, and utilize the principles of the teaching–learning process using educational methods and health literacy education approaches; to design activities and clinical training for persons, groups, and populations and to instruct and train the client, caregiver, family, significant others, and communities at the level of the audience.
Audience: Graduate

5. Demonstrate knowledge of the principles of interprofessional team dynamics to perform effectively in different team roles to plan, deliver, and evaluate patient- and population- centered care as well as population health programs and policies that are safe, timely, efficient, effective, and equitable.
Audience: Graduate

6. Demonstrate effective intraprofessional OT/OTA collaboration to identify the role of the occupational therapist and occupational therapy assistant in the screening and evaluation process and to demonstrate and identify techniques in skills of supervision and collaboration with occupational therapy assistants.
Audience: Graduate

7. Develop strategies for effective, competency-based legal and ethical supervision of occupational therapy and non–occupational therapy personnel. Analyze staff development and professional abilities and competencies of supervised staff as they relate to job responsibilities.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Demonstrate knowledge of and evaluate the business aspects of practice including, but not limited to, the development of business plans, financial management, program evaluation models, and strategic planning.
Audience: Graduate

2. Demonstrate leadership skills in the ability to plan, develop, organize, and market the delivery of services to include the determination of programmatic needs and service delivery options, and formulation and management of staffing for effective service provision.
Audience: Graduate

3. Demonstrate leadership skills in the ability to design ongoing processes for quality management and improvement (e.g., outcome studies analysis and client engagement surveys) and develop program changes as needed to demonstrate quality of services and direct administrative changes.
Audience: Graduate

4. Demonstrate knowledge of personal and professional responsibilities related to liability issues under current models of service provision and varied roles of the occupational therapist providing service on a contractual basis.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe the unique nature of adult occupations and the physical, mental, temporal and sociocultural factors that influence occupational participation for the person across settings.
Audience: Graduate

2. Assess clients’ occupational performance and analyze results to create meaningful, measurable, occupation-based goals, evidence-based treatment strategies, and discharge plans.
Audience: Graduate

3. Demonstrate safe, relevant occupation-based treatment techniques and ability to grade or modify those techniques to accommodate changes in client functional performance as necessary to progress client toward goals.
Audience: Graduate

4. Demonstrate entry-level skill in oral and written communication necessary for effective occupational therapy practice in medical, educational or community-based settings.
Audience: Graduate

5. Develop resilience as a clinician and come to see oneself as a competent member of an interdisciplinary team supporting holistic wellness in the community.
Audience: Graduate

6. Utilize effective interpersonal communication to promote inclusivity of diverse perspectives and provision of culturally-relevant treatment
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe the unique nature of adult occupations and the physical, mental, temporal and sociocultural factors that influence occupational participation for the person across settings
Audience: Graduate

2. Assess clients’ occupational performance and analyze results to create meaningful, measurable, occupation-based goals, evidence-based treatment strategies, and discharge plans.
Audience: Graduate

3. Assess environmental and contextual factors for capacity to promote or restrict client participation, and advocate for relevant accessibility options
Audience: Graduate

4. Demonstrate safe, relevant occupation-based treatment techniques and ability to grade or modify those techniques to accommodate changes in client functional performance as necessary to progress client toward goals.
Audience: Graduate

5. Demonstrate entry-level skill in oral and written communication necessary for effective occupational therapy practice in medical, educational or community-based settings
Audience: Graduate

6. Develop resilience as a clinician and come to see oneself as a competent member of an interdisciplinary team supporting holistic wellness in the community
Audience: Graduate

7. Utilize effective interpersonal communication to promote inclusivity of diverse perspectives and provision of culturally-relevant treatment.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Analyze and evaluate the effects of disease processes including heritable diseases, genetic conditions, mental illness, disability, trauma, and injury on occupational performance.
Audience: Graduate

2. Utilize clinical reasoning to facilitate occupation-based interventions that address client factors. This must include interventions focused on promotion, compensation, adaptation, and prevention.
Audience: Graduate

3. Evaluate client(s)’ occupational performance, including occupational profile, by analyzing and selecting standardized and non-standardized screenings and assessment tools to determine the need for occupational therapy intervention(s). Assessment methods must take into consideration cultural and contextual factors of the client. Interpret evaluation findings of occupational performance and participation deficits to develop occupation-based intervention plans and strategies. Intervention plans and strategies must be client centered, culturally relevant, reflective of current occupational therapy practice, and based on available evidence.
Audience: Graduate

4. Demonstrate, evaluate, and plan the consultative process with persons, groups, programs, organizations, or communities in collaboration with inter- and intra-professional colleagues
Audience: Graduate

5. Evaluate and discuss mechanisms for referring clients to specialists both internal and external to the profession, including community agencies
Audience: Graduate

6. Demonstrate activity analysis in areas of occupation, performance skills, performance patterns, context(s) and environments, and client factors to formulate the intervention plan.
Audience: Graduate

7. Demonstrate clinical reasoning to evaluate, analyze, diagnose, and provide occupation-based interventions to address client factors, performance patterns, and performance skills.
Audience: Graduate

8. Select and apply assessment tools, considering client needs, and cultural and contextual factors. Administer selected standardized and non-standardized assessments using appropriate procedures and protocols. Interpret the results based on psychometric properties of tests considering factors that might bias assessment results (e.g., culture and disability status related to the person and context).
Audience: Graduate

9. Recommend and provide direct interventions and procedures to persons, groups, and populations to enhance safety, health and wellness, and performance in occupations. This must include the ability to select and deliver occupations and activities, preparatory methods and tasks (including therapeutic exercise), education and training, and advocacy
Audience: Graduate

10. Demonstrate knowledge of the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA) Occupational Therapy Code of Ethics and AOTA Standards of Practice and use them as a guide for ethical decision making in professional interactions, client interventions, employment settings, and when confronted with personal and organizational ethical conflicts.
Audience: Graduate

11. Demonstrate, evaluate, and plan the consultative process with persons, groups, programs, organizations, or communities in collaboration with inter- and intra- professional colleagues.
Audience: Graduate

12. Design and implement intervention strategies to remediate and/or compensate for functional cognitive deficits, visual deficits, and psychosocial and behavioral health deficits that affect occupational performance.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Analyze and evaluate the effects of disease processes including heritable diseases, genetic conditions, mental illness, disability, trauma, and injury on occupational performance.
Audience: Graduate

2. Evaluate client(s)’ occupational performance, including occupational profile, by analyzing and selecting standardized and non-standardized screenings and assessment tools to determine the need for occupational therapy intervention(s). Assessment methods must take into consideration cultural and contextual factors of the client. Interpret evaluation findings of occupational performance and participation deficits to develop occupation-based intervention plans and strategies. Intervention plans and strategies must be client centered, culturally relevant, reflective of current occupational therapy practice, and based on available evidence
Audience: Graduate

3. Select and apply assessment tools, considering client needs, and cultural and contextual factors. Administer selected standardized and non-standardized assessments using appropriate procedures and protocols. Interpret the results based on psychometric properties of tests considering factors that might bias assessment results (e.g., culture and disability status related to the person and context)
Audience: Graduate

4. Evaluate and provide interventions for dysphagia and disorders of feeding and eating to enable performance, and train others in precautions and techniques while considering client and contextual factors
Audience: Graduate

5. Demonstrate, evaluate, and plan care coordination, case management, and transition services in traditional and emerging practice environments.
Audience: Graduate

6. Demonstrate activity analysis in areas of occupation, performance skills, performance patterns, context(s) and environments, and client factors to formulate the intervention plan.
Audience: Graduate

7. Demonstrate clinical reasoning to evaluate, analyze, diagnose, and provide occupation-based interventions to address client factors, performance patterns, and performance skills
Audience: Graduate

8. Utilize clinical reasoning to facilitate occupation-based interventions that address client factors. This must include interventions focused on promotion, compensation, adaptation, and prevention
Audience: Graduate

9. Recommend and provide direct interventions and procedures to persons, groups, and populations to enhance safety, health and wellness, and performance in occupations. This must include the ability to select and deliver occupations and activities, preparatory methods and tasks (including therapeutic exercise), education and training, and advocacy
Audience: Graduate

10. Assess the need for and demonstrate the ability to design, fabricate, apply, fit, and train in assistive technologies and devices (e.g., electronic aids to daily living, seating and positioning systems) used to enhance occupational performance and foster participation and well-being
Audience: Graduate

11. Demonstrate, evaluate, and plan the consultative process with persons, groups, programs, organizations, or communities in collaboration with inter- and intra-professional colleagues
Audience: Graduate

12. Evaluate and discuss mechanisms for referring clients to specialists both internal and external to the profession, including community agencies
Audience: Graduate

13. Design and implement intervention strategies to remediate and/or compensate for functional cognitive deficits, visual deficits, and psychosocial and behavioral health deficits that affect occupational performance
Audience: Graduate

14. Assess, grade, and modify the way persons, groups, and populations perform occupations and activities by adapting processes, modifying environments, and applying ergonomic principles to reflect the changing needs of the client, sociocultural context, and technological advances
Audience: Graduate

15. Develop a plan for discharge from occupational therapy services in collaboration with the client and members of the interprofessional team by reviewing the needs of the client, caregiver, family, and significant others; available resources; and discharge environment.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Interpret the evaluation data in relation to accepted terminology of the profession and explain the findings to the interprofessional team.
Audience: Graduate

2. Demonstrate activity analysis in areas of occupation, performance skills, performance patterns, context(s) and environments, and client factors to formulate the intervention plan.
Audience: Graduate

3. Monitor and reassess, in collaboration with the client, caregiver, family, and significant others, the effect of occupational therapy intervention and the need for continued or modified intervention.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Provide care and programs that demonstrate knowledge of applicable national requirements for credentialing and requirements for licensure, certification, or registration consistent with federal and state laws.
Audience: Graduate

2. Demonstrate activity analysis in areas of occupation, performance skills, performance patterns, context(s) and environments, and client factors to formulate the intervention plan.
Audience: Graduate

3. Evaluate access to community resources, and design community or primary care programs to support occupational performance for persons, groups, and populations.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Demonstrate professional work habits as indicated by receiving passing rating on the AOTA Level I FW Competency Evaluation.
Audience: Graduate

2. Demonstrate ability to establish therapeutic relationships with clients.
Audience: Graduate

3. Establish positive working relationships with individuals from other disciplines and develop an increased awareness of OT’s role on an interprofessional team.
Audience: Graduate

4. Demonstrate mature judgment in seeking assistance and responding to feedback in an ethical and courteous manner with both clients and professions.
Audience: Graduate

5. Prepare and administer an evaluation or treatment intervention, formulate therapeutic goals, and develop proposed occupation-based treatment plan.
Audience: Graduate

6. Assist in the therapeutic process safely and effectively, if and when appropriate.
Audience: Graduate

7. Demonstrate activity analysis in areas of occupation, performance skills, performance patterns, context(s) and environments, and client factors to formulate the intervention plan.
Audience: Graduate

8. Demonstrate knowledge of various reimbursement systems and funding mechanisms (e.g., federal, state, third party, private payer), appeals mechanisms, treatment/diagnosis codes (e.g., CPT®, ICD, DSM® codes), and coding and documentation requirements that affect consumers and the practice of occupational therapy. Documentation must effectively communicate the need and rationale for occupational therapy services.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe wellness strategies for health and well being in student life
Audience: Graduate

2. Apply wellness concepts to a particular situation of graduate school
Audience: Graduate

3. Discuss the role of occupational therapy in health and wellness promotion.
Audience: Graduate

4. Identify and explain the role of outcome measures in assuring quality of OT services and efficacy of OT interventions across settings, populations and programs.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe the four occupation-based threshold concepts for lifestyle change.
Audience: Graduate

2. Articulate how the framework and core concepts of the Do/Live/Well framework apply as a theoretical foundation for wellness promotion
Audience: Graduate

3. Critically assess current theory and research examining occupational complexity
Audience: Graduate

4. Identify and explain the effectiveness of strategies for fostering and sustaining lifestyle change for wellness promotion.
Audience: Graduate

5. Apply motivational interviewing skills to coach a peer in lifestyle change.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe a systems thinking approach to guide occupational therapy’s contribution to public health
Audience: Graduate

2. Explain the relationship between social determinants of health and health equity/inequity
Audience: Graduate

3. Identify public health concerns relevant to occupational therapy practice
Audience: Graduate

4. Investigate how your own health has been shaped by social determinants of health across the lifespan
Audience: Graduate

5. Synthesize evidence-based information using a systems thinking approach to support policy and program development and/or evaluation
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe and critically analyze the research supporting current cutting-edge occupation-based interventions for clients/populations served by occupational therapy.
Audience: Graduate

2. Create professional presentations, and client-friendly materials describing these occupation-based interventions and the evidence supporting their use.
Audience: Graduate

3. Describe and critically analyze how our client’s access to occupations and equitable participation in occupations are shaped, limited, and/or supported cultural, social and ecological factors
Audience: Graduate

4. Recognize and critically analyze key characteristics of collaborative relationship-focused practice in Lifestyle Change Interventions.
Audience: Graduate

5. Achieve competency in motivational interviewing skills for independent use with clients and partners in capstone projects
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Understand the research programs of UW OT faculty and how these relate to occupation and occupational therapy
Audience: Graduate

2. Gain hands-on research lab experience in one UW OT faculty’s lab
Audience: Graduate

3. Critique quantitative and qualitative research in order to analyze and evaluate scholarly activities, which contribute to the development of a body of knowledge including level of evidence, validity of research studies, strength of the methodology, relevance to the profession of occupational therapy.
Audience: Graduate

4. Locate, select, analyze, and evaluate scholarly literature to make evidence-based decisions.
Audience: Graduate

5. Design and implement a scholarly study that aligns with current research priorities and advances knowledge translation, professional practice, service delivery, or professional issues (e.g., Scholarship of Integration, Scholarship of Application, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning).
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Demonstrate an understanding of how to design a scholarly proposal in regards to ethical policies and procedures necessary to conduct human-subject research, educational research, or research related to population health.
Audience: Graduate

2. Demonstrate the ability to use quantitative statistics and qualitative analysis to interpret tests and measurements for the purpose of establishing and delivering evidence-based practice.
Audience: Graduate

3. Collect, analyze, and report data in a systematic manner for evaluation of client and practice outcomes. Report evaluation results and modify practice as needed.
Audience: Graduate

4. Interpret criterion-referenced and norm-referenced standardized test scores on the basis of an understanding of sampling, normative data, standard and criterion scores, reliability, and validity.
Audience: Graduate

5. Critique quantitative and qualitative research in order to analyze and evaluate scholarly activities, which contribute to the development of a body of knowledge. This includes, level of evidence, validity of research studies, strength of the methodology, and relevance to the profession of occupational therapy
Audience: Graduate

6. Locate, select, analyze, and evaluate scholarly literature to make evidence based decisions.
Audience: Graduate

7. Design and implement a scholarly study that aligns with current research priorities and advances knowledge translation, professional practice, service delivery, or professional issues (e.g., Scholarship of Integration, Scholarship of Application, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning).
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Select, apply, and interpret quantitative and qualitative methods for data analysis to include basic descriptive, correlational, and inferential quantitative statistics and analysis and synthesis of qualitative data.
Audience: Graduate

2. Critique quantitative and qualitative research in order to analyze and evaluate scholarly activities, which contribute to the development of a body of knowledge including level of evidence, validity of research studies, strength of the methodology, and relevance to the profession of occupational therapy.
Audience: Graduate

3. Locate, select, analyze, and evaluate scholarly literature to make evidence-based decisions.
Audience: Graduate

4. Design and implement a scholarly study that aligns with current research priorities and advances knowledge translation, professional practice, service delivery, or professional issues (e.g., Scholarship of Integration, Scholarship of Application, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning).
Audience: Graduate

5. Create scholarly reports appropriate for presentation or for publication in a peer reviewed journal that support skills of clinical practice. The reports must be made available to professional or public audiences.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Critique quantitative and qualitative research in order to analyze and evaluate scholarly activities, which contribute to the development of a body of knowledge including the level of evidence, validity of research studies, strength of the methodology, relevance to the profession of occupational therapy.
Audience: Graduate

2. Locate, select, analyze, and evaluate scholarly literature to make evidence-based decisions.
Audience: Graduate

3. Design and implement a scholarly study that aligns with current research priorities and advances knowledge translation, professional practice, service delivery, or professional issues (e.g., Scholarship of Integration, Scholarship of Application, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning).
Audience: Graduate

4. Create scholarly reports appropriate for presentation or for publication in a peer reviewed journal that support skills of clinical practice. The reports must be made available to professional or public audiences.
Audience: Graduate

5. Select, apply, and interpret quantitative and qualitative methods for data analysis to include basic descriptive, correlational, and inferential quantitative statistics and analysis and synthesis of qualitative data.
Audience: Graduate

6. Demonstrate an understanding of the process of locating and securing grants and how grants can serve as a fiscal resource for scholarly activities and program development. Create grant proposals to support scholarly activities and program development
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Compare and contrast adult learning theories and their application in various interprofessional learning situations.
Audience: Graduate

2. State and apply key principles of effective communication to the presentation of information through oral, written, and interactive media.
Audience: Graduate

3. Choose effective communication tools and techniques, including information systems and communication technologies, to facilitate discussions and interactions that enhance effective communication in interprofessional settings.
Audience: Graduate

4. Prepare a professional manuscript for a relevant professional publication of academic journal on a topic related to current practice or capstone project using professional language and writing style to communicate information incorporating the specific publication format.
Audience: Graduate

5. Prepare and present a presentation using appropriate technology and style for targeted audience and demonstrate modifications necessary to the presentation for a different interprofessional audience.
Audience: Graduate

6. Critique the work of peers, providing constructive feedback on their interprofessional presentations and writing.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Apply, analyze, and evaluate scientific evidence, theories, models of practice, and frames of reference that underlie the practice of occupational therapy to guide and inform interventions for persons, groups, and populations in a variety of practice contexts and environments.
Audience: Graduate

2. Demonstrate clinical reasoning to evaluate, analyze, diagnose, and provide occupation-based interventions to address client factors, performance patterns, and performance skills
Audience: Graduate

3. Utilize clinical reasoning to facilitate occupation-based interventions that address client factors. This must include interventions focused on promotion, compensation, adaptation, and prevention.
Audience: Graduate

4. Monitor and reassess, in collaboration with the client, caregiver, family, and significant others, the effect of occupational therapy intervention and the need for continued or modified intervention.
Audience: Graduate

5. Design and implement intervention strategies to remediate and/or compensate for functional cognitive deficits, visual deficits, and psychosocial and behavioral health deficits that affect occupational performance.
Audience: Graduate

6. Develop a plan for discharge from occupational therapy services in collaboration with the client and members of the interprofessional team by reviewing the needs of the client, caregiver, family, and significant others; available resources; and discharge environment.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Apply, analyze, and evaluate scientific evidence, theories, models of practice, and frames of reference that underlie the practice of occupational therapy to guide and inform interventions for persons, groups, and populations in a variety of practice contexts and environments.
Audience: Graduate

2. Demonstrate clinical reasoning to evaluate, analyze, diagnose, and provide occupation-based interventions to address client factors, performance patterns, and performance skills
Audience: Graduate

3. Utilize clinical reasoning to facilitate occupation-based interventions that address client factors. This must include interventions focused on promotion, compensation, adaptation, and prevention.
Audience: Graduate

4. Monitor and reassess, in collaboration with the client, caregiver, family, and significant others, the effect of occupational therapy intervention and the need for continued or modified intervention.
Audience: Graduate

5. Design and implement intervention strategies to remediate and/or compensate for functional cognitive deficits, visual deficits, and psychosocial and behavioral health deficits that affect occupational performance
Audience: Graduate

6. Develop a plan for discharge from occupational therapy services in collaboration with the client and members of the interprofessional team by reviewing the needs of the client, caregiver, family, and significant others; available resources; and discharge environment.
Audience: Graduate

7. Apply teaching methods to facilitation of group case-based learning process
Audience: Graduate

8. Identify opportunities for advocacy and population health interventions based on individual level cases.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify and explain the role of outcome measures in assuring quality of OT services and efficacy of OT interventions across settings, populations and programs.
Audience: Graduate

2. Identify the domains of the World Health Organization ICF (International Classification of Function) most relevant for evaluating Occupational Therapy practice in context.
Audience: Graduate

3. Describe the conceptual similarities and differences in efficiency, effectiveness and efficacy.
Audience: Graduate

4. Describe the measurement properties of objective and subjective measures of learning outcomes, service provision, function, occupational performance and quality of life.
Audience: Graduate

5. Evaluate the reliability, validity and utility of objective and subjective measures of service provision, learning outcomes, function, occupational performance and quality of life.
Audience: Graduate

6. Develop an outcome measurement plan for a specific area of practice.
Audience: Graduate

7. Apply appropriate outcome measures for evaluating service quality and effectiveness of interventions in a specific area of practice.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Differentiate between various scholarly projects including capstone project, thesis, and dissertation.
Audience: Graduate

2. Identify a relevant clinical problem, gap in practice or specific need in the student’s area of occupational therapy practice or desired professional development
Audience: Graduate

3. Develop a timeline for completion of the doctoral capstone project.
Audience: Graduate

4. Identify and initiate with potential sites to support a capstone project.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify a relevant clinical problem, gap in practice or specific need in the student’s area of occupational therapy practice or desired professional development
Audience: Graduate

2. Complete a SWOT analysis and draft a preliminary conceptual model
Audience: Graduate

3. Conduct and summarize a comprehensive needs assessment, including literature review and collection of information from stakeholders
Audience: Graduate

4. Draft and defend a written proposal for an innovative project, program, intervention or approach to the identified problem
Audience: Graduate

5. Develop an evaluation plan for assessing outcomes
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Formulate systems to gather, analyze and interpret data from a practice setting.
Audience: Graduate

2. Translate evidence into best practice for the continued development of the profession.
Audience: Graduate

3. Demonstrate an understanding of the process for locating and securing grants and how grants can serve as a fiscal resource for scholarly and programmatic activities.
Audience: Graduate

4. Develop and implement an inter-professional, scholarly capstone project that addresses an identified service system, intervention or programmatic problem, relates theory to practice and demonstrates synthesis of advanced knowledge in a practice area.
Audience: Graduate

5. Evaluate the outcomes of the capstone project and communicate findings to an inter-professional audience in a clear, understandable manner through a peer-reviewed report or presentation.
Audience: Graduate

6. Empirically monitor client progress and treatment efficacy in practice.
Audience: Graduate

7. Identify and apply appropriate tools for measuring practice outcomes at the individual and systems level.
Audience: Graduate

8. Synthesize current knowledge, available evidence and responses to interventions to inform new approaches to practice problems.
Audience: Graduate

9. Demonstrate the skills necessary to lead and manage an inter-professional team.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Demonstrate advanced synthesis of knowledge gained in a chosen area including research, policy, leadership, administration, entrepreneurshp, program development or advocacy through successful achieving of individually customized learning goals.
Audience: Graduate

2. Model professional and leadership skills needed to work with multiple stakeholders successfully
Audience: Graduate

3. Communicate effectively with others in a professional setting: a. Interact effectively with clients, colleagues, other professionals, and community members from diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds on a one-on-one basis and within the context of groups and b. Communicate effectively with varied audiences for varied purposes
Audience: Graduate

4. Complete a Capstone Project connected to the DEC site which meets both the site needs as well as the student learning goals
Audience: Graduate