Or you can be a school that puts their money where there mouth is. When therapy Caps were first in place, academics seemed unprepared for the great changes about to occur in the field and the lack of certain placements for their students after college. I am proud to notice that many colleges took up the call to be something more than a money maker and actually start shaping the profession. They noticed the lack of traditional fieldwork placements and thus got out in the community and created their own. They noticed the danger to profession when people can't tell the difference between OT and PT and did something about it. I suppose I'm lucky in that where I work I know what I am and can easy demonstrate how different I am from PT's. Often, it's the OT leads with the head and heart engage cognitive functions while doing the "exercise" but, of course I don't call them that. But, it is hard when you go into hand clinics or rehab clinics where the medical predominates and it is expected of you to know the biomechanics and treat large numbers of people because of reimbursement issues.
Elizabeth H. Thiers, OTR/L Florida Elks Children's Therapy Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] for great toys please go to: http://www.discoverytoyslink.com/beththiersgreattoys Subject: RE: Re[6]: Fwd: Treatment for a Fractured Elbow Ron, You have brought up an excellent point that has been confusing educators since...well, since I don't know when. Do we educate for what is or what we want it to be? Do we pass on to new generations of therapists our philosophies and our vision of our profession, as promulgated by the thinktank of our profession, and help lead the change...back to the future of the essence of our profession, or do we train students to perform the tasks that they are expected to be able to do by the clinicians who will be supervising their fieldwork, grading their FWE, and perhaps hiring them within the next two years? If we train (notice the crafty use of terminology) students for the workplace shaped by mechanistic models of practice, highly influenced by medicine of the 80's and 90's, are we digging a deeper trench for our students and future colleagues? Our profession seems to have a split brain approach to its development--the apparent rift between the University and the world of practi! ce. I wonder if other professions are in the same state? How is your elbow doing? We have your colleague, David Lehman here for the time being.... *********��*********** Unsubscribe? Send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message's *body*, put the following text: unsubscribe OTlist ** List messages are archived at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] *********��***********
