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Suzanne M Peloquin

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PubMed2003

Establishing a practice climate in academic settings.

This article describes an innovative educational approach that was introduced and developed in one occupational therapy program, favorably assessed by students, and promoted within the occupational therapy literature. A review of educational literature from other disciplines suggests that the approach characterized as creating a practice climate, may be useful to most allied health educators. We discuss (1) the meaning of the term practice climate, (2) the rationale for creating such a climate in larger classroom sessions, (3) nine process strategies that can establish this climate, and (4) an assessment of the approach by two groups of undergraduate students. Although introduced in a senior-level undergraduate course, the approach has merit for implementation in less advanced courses and in graduate education.

Diffusion of Innovation↗
PubMed2002

Changing educational paradigms to prepare allied health professionals for the 21st century.

CONTEXT: Inefficient and ineffective health care delivery has been of recent concern to most stakeholders in the process. Care provision systems will improve when care providers are educated to function as team members and to demonstrate competencies required for practice in diverse, demanding, and ever-changing environments. GOAL: In one School of Allied Health Sciences, faculty members from nine departments united to create an interdisciplinary curriculum designed to foster the achievement of common competencies essential for success in the workplace. APPROACH: Members of a Curriculum-2000 Task Force collaborated to: (1) review current literature, (2) articulate a set of common competencies across several disciplines, and (3) produce a proposal for achieving and measuring competencies in an interdisciplinary manner. CONCLUSION: Individuals from various disciplines can come to consensus about competencies that graduates should achieve. Such consensus is the first step in the direction of implementing a curriculum based on interdisciplinary competencies.

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Confluence: moving forward with affective strength.

The term confluent education describes a flowing together of the affective and cognitive elements of learning. Confluent education accords high value to affect because of its core principle that the realization of human potential includes attention to the affective elements of human nature. This article reviews the literature on confluent education, extends a previous introduction of the topic, and proposes an integration of affect into all realms of occupational therapy practice. The visual metaphors, philosophical principles, and practical strategies developed in the literature on confluent education are useful when applied to the functions of occupational therapy practitioners engaged in direct care, education, or research. Because the contexts within which occupational therapy practice occurs today often challenge its affective elements, the author proposes confluence as a timely approach. To advance into the future with the affective strength that has characterized occupational therapy since its inception is a matter of reclaiming the profession's heart.

Cognition Disorders↗
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Reclaiming the vision of reaching for heart as well as hands.

Although infrequently discussed in the professional literature, visionary language and visual imagery are identifiable elements within occupational therapy's culture. They seem part of the profession's desire to characterize, affirm, and renew itself. One early vision of practice, that of reaching for heart as well as hands, is the subject of this inquiry that extends a prior discussion of visions in occupational therapy. Central to the inquiry are the early vision's (a) origin, exemplification, and clarity of meaning within one autobiographical text and (b) merits for the profession's characterization, affirmation, and renewal. The early vision of reaching for heart as well as hands may benefit the profession today by characterizing the ethos of occupational therapy as integrative, affirming its practice as occupational, and inspiring its practitioners to renew a commitment to caring.

Attitude of Health Personnel↗
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The conceptualization, formative evaluation, and design of a process for student professional development.

This article describes a process for student professional development and the efforts of faculty over almost 2 decades to conceptualize, formatively evaluate, and refine it. Initiated in 1987, the process underwent numerous changes to address both conceptual and pragmatic concerns derived from faculty and student ad hoc feedback. Currently in place is a process that addresses these concerns while lending itself to effective use among master's level students. The development and iteration of the process is offered as a case for consideration by other educators engaged in similar efforts.

Attitude of Health Personnel↗
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Embracing our ethos, reclaiming our heart.

A profession's ethos is an interlacing of sentiment, value, and thought that describes its character, conveys its genius, and manifests its spirit. The ethos endures over time, serving as touchstone against which individuals may strike their actions to know their worth. As a profession's inner voice, the ethos inspires individuals and calls them back if they stray too far. This discussion of the occupational therapy profession's ethos has two discernable parts. The first invites deliberation, given its historical ground. The second is a blend of ideas and images, a clutch of reflections inviting affect and will to join in thought. My hope is to illuminate the ethos of the profession in such a way that a new perspective on current challenges is possible. I set before you this idea: To advance into the future with the ethos that has characterized occupational therapy since its inception is a reclamation of the profession's heart.

History, 20th Century↗