INTEGRATING RESEARCH THROUGHOUT THE OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY CURRICULUM

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INTEGRATING RESEARCH THROUGHOUT THE OCCUPATIONAL
THERAPY CURRICULUM

• Shelley Mack
• Susan Ryan
• UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK - IRELAND

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IRELAND
EUROPEAN CITY OF CULTURE
A LAND OF TRADITIONS
A LAND OF YOUNG PEOPLE IMMIGRANTS
A LAND OF SCHOLARS
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UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK
A NEW OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY PROGRAMME ABLE TO
DESIGN OUR OWN CURRICULUM
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O.T. CURRICULUM

• BUILT ON SIX DOCTORAL STUDIES evidenced based
• DESIGNED AROUND COMPLEX TASKS TBL extension
  of Problem Based Learning PBL practical
  element
• CONTEXTUAL needs in Ireland

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TRANSFERABLE ABILITIES

• EIGHT abilities that cross the programme
• RESEARCH EVIDENCED BASED PRACTICEand
  
• Acquiring managing knowledge
• Reasoning clinically and reflectively
• Communicating counselling
• Evaluating clients Being professional
• Planning interventions Being entrepreneurial

Essential foundational knowledge like these
rocks
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INTEGRATING THREADING THROUGH EVERYTHING

• RESEARCH - Big R Small r
• Perceived by students as being essential and
  integral to practice
• A way of exploring your
• own practice working
• towards excellence

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HOW DO WE DO IT?

• STAFF role model use research examples by
  just talking about them naturally as if this was
  normal give narratives from research as these
  are immediately understandable
• GUIDED READING FORMS increasing difficulty
  increasing criticalness aware of
  evidence in literature .

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YEAR ONE

• Interviewing Designing
• informally

surveys
RESEARCH BECOMES PART OF THEIR THINKING!
Inputting data displaying it
INFORMAL NORMAL
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YEAR TWO

• Formal RESEARCH METHODS starts.

• OT SLT students work together
• Research questions from local therapists
• Students gather evidence from everywhere
  ..ArticlesBooksReportsInternet Grey
  literature (unpublished dissertations theses)
  Informal work like papersmagazinesbooks.
• Students present their collection to peers
• and local therapists

RESEARCH IS ALL AROUND US RESEARCH IS ABOUT
LIFE
INFORMAL CONTINUES IN OTHER MODULES FORMAL
STARTS
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YEAR THREE

• ADVANCED RESEARCH CONTINUES

STUDENTS USE SOFTWARE SPSS LEARN ABOUT
QUALITATIVE SOFTWARE Hear about active
researchers experiences
PREPARE A RESEARCH PROPOSAL FOR ETHICS COMMITTEE
AT UNIVERSITYfor local therapists to carry out
the actual research
INFORMAL WORK CONTINUES..
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YEARS THREE to FOUR
STAFF TEAMS WITH WITHOUT RESEARCH STAFF
QUESTIONS TO RESEARCH BASED ON UCC WORK
Yr. 3 - prepare actual study ready for ETHICS
BOARD Yr. 4 carry out research with staff
teams write findings as a journal
article.
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MORE RESEARCH

• STAFF ARE RESEARCHING THE PROGRAMME AS IT
  DEVELOPS
• RUN FOCUS GROUPS WITH LOCAL THERAPISTS CHAIRING
  THE SESSIONS
• STUDENTS GET USED TO RESEARCH AS A WAY OF WORKING!

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INTER-UNIVERSITY RESEARCH

• Collaborating with other universities
• Speakers in Advanced Research Methods

University of Limerick
Inter-university research conference
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NATIONAL PICTURE

• Students join REHABILITATION AND THERAPY RESEARCH
  SOCIETY in third year
• Students present work at AOTI annual Conferences

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INTERNATIONAL PICTURE

• ALL STAFF TO BECOME RESEARCH ACTIVE
• - Professor heading the programme
• - Staff have or doing Masters
  Doctoral degrees
• WFOT Sydney..
• 10 abstracts accepted

Our journey continues