Post-Professional Occupational Therapy Doctorate, Online
College
- College of Rehabilitation Sciences
Degree Earned
- Doctorate
Program Length
Variable
Program Type
- Online
Leadership
Positions:
- Program Director, Post-Professional OTD Program
- Professor
Contact Number(s):
Outcomes & Careers
Graduates demonstrate an improved ability to solve complex social and health problems by using core knowledge obtained throughout the program, systems thinking, and an interprofessional perspective. Our Post-Professional Doctorate in Occupational Therapy (PP-OTD) program produces sophisticated practitioners capable of influencing and responding to societal needs as well as the ever-changing health and human services environments.
Advanced Level Expertise
Our students:
- Demonstrate advanced clinical competence in a chosen area of practice
- Integrate scientific evidence into their practice
- Demonstrate advanced level skill in evidence-based practice
- Apply occupation principles to unique and innovative intervention programs
- Demonstrate ability to analyze the impact of social, political, economic, and cultural influences on health, occupation, and disability
- Integrate an understanding of the impact of disability into the occupations of individuals and populations
- Adjust their practice, using their understanding of the role of culture and the environment, to an individual’s health needs
- Be able to teach others in an area of expertise in both clinical and didactic venues
- Demonstrate the ability to integrate theory and practice, and to synthesize advanced knowledge in a practice area through the completion of a culminating project
Innovative Program Development
Our students:
- Create, evaluate and implement innovative programs that address important, contemporary public health needs
- Demonstrate in-depth knowledge of delivery models, policies, and systems related to their area of practice in new and traditional venues
- Design, implement and evaluate occupational therapy programs that use the tenets of occupation
- Create new knowledge in occupation-based practice to address the unmet needs of an organization or a community
- Demonstrate skills in advocacy
- Solve complex clinical practice issues using cutting-edge, cost-effective models of practice
- Present new models of service delivery to administration and management
- Publish and present work in interdisciplinary venues
Leadership Roles
Our students:
- Become leaders in traditional and contemporary venues
- Develop a personal philosophy of leadership
- Create an innovative, advanced professional development plan
- Carve out a unique niche for occupational therapy practice or education
- Create a vision for innovative occupational therapy practice
- Demonstrate advanced skills needed to assume leadership positions including communication skills, negotiation skills, consultation skills, initiative, collaboration, team building, management, and business skills
- Understand organizational theory, including strategies for evaluating organizational effectiveness, creating strategies for change, and monitoring the success of the implemented strategies
- Utilize leadership skills to create and implement a program or practice based on an identified public health need that includes an analysis of the need for the program, a business plan to outline the program, and a sophisticated plan for implementation and evaluation
- Demonstrate skills in teaching others about occupational therapy within and outside of the profession