Canadian Association of Occupational Therapists

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Occupational Therapy
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     Volume Five • Issue Two
     March / April • 2003
   
   
Table of Contents

News updates

Profession mourns Barbara Posthuma Sexton

News from the Canadian Occupational Therapy Foundation

• COTF Board votes to relocate office to Ottawa

Focus on Fieldwork
Adventures in international fieldwork
Deb Cameron, Emily Bednar and Hilleree Valade describe a never-ending fieldwork placement in Trinidad.

10 reasons for you to make students an offer they can’t refuse!
Andrew Neale’s literature search reveals that providing student placements has many benefits to your career in occupational therapy.

Sense of Doing
Occupational science: Foundation and future
Daniel Molke and Debbie Laliberte-Rudman describe the history of occupational science and the ways in which it supports enabling occupation.

Becoming an employer of choice: A workplace solution to recruiting and retaining occupational therapists
Have you ever been pulled to apply to a “magnet hospital?” When there is a shortage of health personnel, it’s the workplaces that address the professional practice needs that become the “employers of choice.” Claudia von Zweck explains more in this compelling article regarding occupational therapy shortages.
 
Reflections of a consultant occupational therapist
Liz Mullan explains how being a consultant is a natural fit for occupational therapists.

NEW COLUMN DEBUT!!!
In touch with assistive technology
Column editor Elizabeth Steggles starts the column off with a web site corner, product reviews and a call for contributors.

On Your Behalf

Canadian Institute of Health Research funds workshop

Report on the First National Roundtable of Children with Disabilities

National Initiatives for Tele-health Guidelines

Occupation — Makes life worth living

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