Hello As a lurker, "older wiser learner", COTA, and a someone who just finished an MS in OT, I find this a very interesting discussion.
The strong emphasis in our OT program was to become practitioners who are strongly rooted in evidence based practice. The cry of the students was that there just isn't a lot of evidence that shows other disciplines the hard evidence that occupation has a direct impact on health. With the coming changes of an aging population, improved outcomes for people with Neurodevelopmental disabilities and all the changes that are occurring in health care, OT has a tremendous opportunity to demonstrate what many of us have seen in practice, that occupation, -what people need to and want to, and can do,- does impact health, - but we have to prove it to those who receive our services and the systems that pay for those services. The World Health Organization and the medical community are becoming more aware of the need to look at function in context. OT is already there. Laurie Bauch, COTA/OT Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2008 08:15:19 -0500 From: "Bill Maloney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [OTlist] OTlist Digest, Vol 41, Issue 26 To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Bear with me folks, I couldn't resist. Something Ron said, highlighted below, hearkens back to a keynote speech from then AOTA president Barbara Kornblau (circa 2003). Ron Carson wrote: *"But it's HOW and WHY we apply these skills that separate us from PT. And, there MUST be a clear line between OT and PT, otherwise we are going to get gobbled up."* Barbara Kornblau (an excellent speaker/presenter) talked about the APTA's "Vision 2020" initiative. For those of you not familiar with that plan, the intent is raise the entry level degree for PTs to DPT from 2020 forward. -- Options? www.otnow.com/mailman/options/otlist_otnow.com Archive? www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
