Hello Joe: Good idea to do further investigating and great links, thanks!
The Army brochure that I used for my quoted does contain comprehensive info about OT. Perhaps I should have included some quotes relating to group therapy, alcohol rehab, etc. Maybe I missed it, but I haven't read anything about the Army using OTA's. I am interested to hear if they in fact, they do. One of the reasons I posted my original message is because of the recent discussions about marketing "out product". I am convinced that our product is too diverse, inconsistent and misunderstood to market. Until, the profession of OT's internal structure is more clearly defined, I think that marketing is not a good use of resources. Somehow, AOTA and practicing OT's, must develop a model of theory and practice that is specialized, understood by both internal and external audiences, deliverable and practiced. To date, in my opinion this has not happened. ----- Original Message ----- From: Joe Wells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2005 To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subj: [OTlist] Army OT/PT Descriptions JW> Hi Ron: JW> Just out of curiousity, I checked the Walter Reed Medical Center website JW> http://www.wramc.amedd.army.mil/departments/Ortho/PhysMed/otscope.htm. The JW> OT scope explained there is a little more comprehensive. I also checked the JW> PT scope at JW> http://www.wramc.amedd.army.mil/departments/Ortho/PhysMed/ptscope.htm and JW> found the scopes to have a lot of areas overlapping. In the military, my JW> guess is that the model is very transdisciplinary. I believe the student JW> appointment is an internship (level II fieldwork) affiliation since there JW> are no OT academic programs in the Army, although as you mentioned, they do JW> have a DPT program at the US Army- Baylor University JW> (http://www.amsc.amedd.army.mil/training.asp). The army does train its own JW> OTAs. More on the OT internship program JW> http://www.amsc.amedd.army.mil/Doc/otintership.pdf. Do we have any army OTs JW> on the board ? It would be nice to hear about their army expeeiences. JW> Other Army sites: JW> http://www.wramc.amedd.army.mil/departments/Ortho/index.htm JW> http://www.amsc.amedd.army.mil/about.asp JW> Joe -- Unsubscribe? [EMAIL PROTECTED] Change options? www.otnow.com/mailman/options/otlist_otnow.com Archive? www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] Help? [EMAIL PROTECTED]
