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Bachelor Occupational Therapy Afdrukken E-mailadres
The profession
The occupational therapist assists and treats people having a temporary or permanent limitation in order to get them functioning autonomously in their living, work and social situation. The limitation can be sensomotorical, cognitive and/or psychosocial. The occupational therapist will train the basic functions and/or concrete skills of daily life in each of these fields. The purpose of the training is to decrease the limitation or, in other cases, to support the patient in living more adequately with his limitations. The aim of occupational therapy is to increase the patient’s independence/autonomy and to make him as full a member of society as possible, even in case of a serious permanent handicap.
 
Besides training specific skills, the occupational therapist also gives advice, which concerns choosing and designing assistive devices and adaptations which will enable or facilitate the patient’s reintegration in the living and/or working situation. Graduates find work easily in settings for mental health care, developmental disorders, elderly­ care and physical rehabilitation.
 
Study programme
The occupational therapy education programme of the health care department of the Artesis University College of Antwerp consists of three years of college in one cycle (professional bachelor) and has a workload for the student of 180 ECTS. The programme is divided in six semesters of 30 ECTS. Each semester includes an examination period, but also during the semesters, students are evaluated through permanent tasks.
 
The occupational therapy education is based on a broad understanding of occupation and the unique integration of empirical and phenomenological knowledge from social, technological, human, biological and life sciences. Occupational therapy contributes to and is influenced by the development of the emerging discipline of occupational science.
 
The objectives of the occupational therapy education programme are as follows:
· to acquire theoretical basic knowledge and insights;
· to acquire knowledge and insights in occupational therapy evidence-based practice;
· to acquire therapeutic, practical and communicative skills;
· to assemble and to process (scientific) information;
· to stimulate personal development and lifelong learning;
· to develop a critical attitude.
 
These objectives are translated in four learning approaches upon which the entire programme is built:
· professional skills,
· communication skills,
· personal development and lifelong learning,
· scientific skills.

During the education programme, fieldwork is an integral component and accounts for 45 of the 180 ECTS. It offers students the opportunity to gain knowledge and experience within the field of occupational therapy practice and their preferred field of expertise. The competences related to practical training are, amongst others, the capacity for applying knowledge into practice and to apply the occupational therapy process in a client centred way, the ability to work in interdisciplinary teams and problem solving. Fieldwork starts in the first year of the programme. Students complete a minimum of 1000 hours engaged in fieldwork placements during their studies. The bachelor thesis in the third year accounts for 13 ECTS and gives the student the opportunity to learn to apply scientific skills in occupational therapy practice.

Curriculum 2011-2012

Semester 1

ECTS

Semester 2

ECTS

Introduction to occupational therapy

9

Occupational therapy theory and practice 2

6

Clinical reasoning & evidence based practice 1

4

Occupational therapy  in developmental disorders 1

3

Activity analysis

4

Occupational therapy  in physical rehabilitation 1

3

Introduction to portfolio

1

Creative en technical skills 2

7

Occupational therapy theory and practice 1

4

Fieldwork, inter-professional skills and portfolio 1

5

Occupational therapy  in geriatrics 1

2

Anatomy 2

4

Occupational therapy  in mental healthcare  1

2

Biomechanics 1

4

Creative en technical skills 1

4

Pathology 1

4

Psychology 1

6

Anatomy 1

4

Physiology

3

30

30

Semester 3

Semester 4

Occupational therapy in developmental disorders 2

7

Occupational therapy in physical rehabilitation 3

8

Occupational therapy in mental healthcare  2

7

Occupational therapy in geriatrics 2

3

Occupational therapy in physical rehabilitation 2

3

Evidence based practice 2

4

Fieldwork, inter-professional skills and portfolio 2

5

Fieldwork, inter-professional skills and portfolio 3

8

Psychopathology / Psychology 2

5

Pathology 2

4

Neuroanatomy

3

Biomechanics 2

3

30

30

Semester 5

Semester 6

Occupational therapy in geriatrics 3

4

Occupational therapy: integration and lifelong learning

4

Occupational therapy in developmental disorders 3

4

Bachelor thesis 2

10

Occupational therapy in mental healthcare  3

4

Fieldwork, inter-professional skills and portfolio 5

16

Occupational therapy in physical rehabilitation 4

4

Juridical and ethical aspects in Occupational therapy

3

Bachelor thesis  1

3

Fieldwork, inter-professional skills and portfolio 4

8

30

30

 
 
 
  		 
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