Pre-Doctoral Capstone Experience Seminar

Catalog description

The pre-doctoral capstone experience seminar will expose OTD students to self-selected areas of interest. The seminar in the OTD program offer students the opportunity to extend and refine knowledge acquired in the curriculum and utilize it meaningfully as a means of critically analyzing occupational therapy practice. Students will articulate a rationale for doctoral experiential site choice(s) that considers: (a) their own occupational interests and needs; (b) the opportunities, limitations, requirements and needs of particular practice environments; and (c) the potential contribution a professional prepared with an OTD degree might make to such environments. Emphasis will be placed on understanding the personal, communal and institutional/societal dimensions of professional development and on the appreciation of the critical balance between these three dimensions. Students will prepare a detailed plan of their capstone and a weekly outcome description in preparation for their capstone experience.