Unlike other licensing Boards within the PA Bureau of Professional and Occupational Affairs whose licensure laws require its licensees to complete continuing education as a condition of biennial renewal, the PA OT Board is charged in section 15(a) with assuring …
Continued Competency – Why Isn’t Continuing Education Sufficient? Read more »
This is not true. Level I students can be supervised by any “qualified personnel” per standard C.1.9. This includes OTAs, PTs and PTAs, SLPs, teachers, psychologists, social workers, etc. Typically anyone who has a degree in an allied health or …
About 60 alumni and faculty members attended a reception at the Hilton Baltimore Inner Harbor on Friday, April 4 during AOTA’s Annual Conference. Attendees included clinicians from our very first graduating class, 1976, our most recent class, 2013 and every …
In determining the required number of continued competency hours, the PA OT Licensure Board looked to the National Board for Certification in Occupational Therapy (NBCOT) and its requirement for national certification as an occupational therapist because it is the standard …
The third annual Running for Rachel 5K fundraiser was held on City Island in Harrisburg on Sunday April 27. The weather was beautiful and over 900 runners and walkers turned out in support of the event which raises money for duodenal and …
Level I fieldwork is addressed in several of the 19 accreditation standards including standard C.1.8 which dictates level I be observation AND participation. For sites challenged to provide participation, that can happen by having students write practice notes (even if …
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By Joanna Davis (MS, ’14), President of Pi Theta Epsilon Pi Theta Epsilon, Elizabethtown College’s occupational therapy honors society, experienced a very exciting year so far! To help support our mission of promoting scholarly activities, we invited Dr. Ginny Stoffel, …
AOTA President Visits Etown and discusses AOTA’s Centennial Vision Read more »
Congratulations to Etown OT students for being awarded scholarships from the American Occupational Therapy Foundation (AOTF) and the Pennsylvania Occupational Therapy Association (POTA). Jennifer Bush, rising graduate student, received the Martha Kirkland Pi Theta Epsilon Endowed Scholarship by the American Occupational …
Occupational Therapy faculty, students, and alumni attended the recent American Occupational Therapy Association Annual Conference, which was held in Baltimore, April 2-6, 2014. This year’s annual conference gathered more than 7,000 clinicians, faculty, and students from all over the United …
AOTA Conference in Baltimore – Blue Jays in attendance Read more »
48 students graduated with their Master of Science degrees on May 17, 2014! This was the largest cohort of students in the history of the department, and this class was also the 10th class of Master’s degree students. We congratulate …