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Instructions:
Welcome to the Clinical Site Information Page. You may click on each of the tabs to the left to find information about the Program and Sessions for the institution listed below.FIELDWORK EDUCATORS AND SUPERVISORS
Please review the syllabus documents found at the link to the left prior to the student's first day of clinical. For fieldwork training and support you will find material in the general documents and quick links tab to help those with their first student as well as those with years of student fieldwork experience. Further support is available by contacting the Academic Fieldwork Coordinator at 254-295-4872.Fieldwork Integration into the Curriculum
The UMHB MSOT program considers fieldwork education to be an essential part of the curriculum and overall development of the student occupational therapist. It is the program’s desire to work with fieldwork educators and fieldwork sites that are able to demonstrate the capacity to provide rich learning opportunities for occupational therapy practice congruent with our philosophy and curriculum design.
The UMHB MSOT philosophy strongly supports experiential learning and our fieldwork curriculum through the four recurring phases of Kolb’s Experiential Learning Cycle (ELC) (Kolb, 1984). The UMHB MSOT program values the student’s previous experiences and plans to build upon them through various active learning experiences. In preparation for Level I Fieldwork, students will be immersed in professional foundation courses and will have the opportunity to work with community members, participate in simulation labs, and in engage in service learning opportunities. Faculty will be instrumental during these experiences in order to provide guidance, reflection and conceptualization of meaning. Through Level I Fieldwork, students will be able to use their concrete experiences and begin to develop more abstract thinking, understanding the significance and complexity of occupation while developing their own professional identity as future occupational therapists.
As the program progresses and as students prepare for Level II Fieldwork, faculty will continue to ensure connections between course content and experiential learning activities to promote dynamic integration of increasingly complex concepts. Students will continue through the phases of Kolb’s ELC as they integrate learned theory, knowledge and skills into practice and as they develop professional communication, leadership and identity as occupational therapists. The cyclical nature of experiential learning, according to Kolb’s ELC, will allow for students to emerge from the UMHB OT program prepared for ethical evidence-based practice, leadership, scholarship and lifelong learning.
Fieldwork Completion Deadline
Students must
complete Level II fieldwork requirements within 24 months following completion
of the didactic portion of the program.
