Wow - what goes around comes around. After the Second World War doctors in Canada lobbied to have OT/PT combined trained therapists. This was the norm for some time. I think University of British Columbia was the last school to 'divide' training. Very few therapists ever maintained two licences. This possibly led to the OT shortage as people tended to drift to PT. I work for a combined grad who is a consummate OT but tended to be very physical medicine oriented. I get the feeling from a lot of posts that US Medicare almost forces a reductionist or concrete mindset in therapists, as ability is so much easier to describe and justify than occupation. Most of my basic medicine courses were taken jointly with PT students but all the application courses were OT, taught by OTs.
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