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Boston University College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences: Sargent College is pleased to announce that it is now offering occupational therapists the opportunity to enroll in individual courses, as non-degree students, in the online post-professional Doctor of Occupational Therapy program.
A great way to try online education before committing to a full Master's degree program.
This is an excellent way for you to determine if an online program works for you and fits within your current schedule. Non-degree students may enroll in up to two courses, which will count toward your eventual degree, should you decide to apply to the online post-professional Doctor of Occupational Therapy degree program. To gain full acceptance into the degree program, you will need to meet all of the admissions criteria. In addition, these courses also count as continuing education units.
Apply as a non-degree student today!
If you are a United States licensed occupational therapist and you wish to take courses as a non-degree student, simply contact your Admissions Advisor for an application form and fax it to 1.866.398.0338, along with a copy of your NBCOT certification and OT license, where applicable. If you are an international student, please contact us for more information.
Available Courses
Contact your Admissions Advisor at 1.866.232.0232 ext. 3367 for more information and start dates.
Select a course below for more detailed information:
OT617: Contemporary Trends in Occupational Therapy Practice:
This course examines three important current topics of discussion in the profession. The first theme is client-centered practice: What is contemporary thinking about this principle and how does my practice reflect this principle? The second theme is occupation-centered practice: What does it mean to have occupation as the core focus of practice and what are current challenges to keeping this focus? The third theme is looking outward: How do the concerns of occupational therapy relate to work emerging in other fields and where might we find knowledge to enhance our practice, or collaborators who share similar concerns and values? The course assignments are designed to facilitate critical reflection on the student's own practice in relation to these developments.
OT681: Directed Study in EBP:This course builds on the knowledge and skills that were introduced in HP561_OT and provides further practice in appraisal and application of research evidence. The course revisits some of the measurement issues introduced previously in more depth and examines other research approaches that provide evidence for practice, including single subject research and prediction designs. Additional topics include; how to use research evidence to evaluate and refine the models that guide clinical decision-making, and how to apply the methods and measures of research to gather outcomes evidence in one's own practice. The major assignments of the course are completed through participation in a virtual journal club with students collaborating in small groups to examine evidence on a question of mutual interest.
HP720: Educational Theory and Practice: This course focuses on developing effective teaching techniques and strategies that are needed in a variety of clinical and academic contexts. Topics covered in this course include; identifying instructional settings in one's own practice, the impact of ethical, legal, and economic factors on the educational process, principles of major learning and instruction theories, effective teaching strategies for learners at different developmental stages, strategies that facilitate motivation and improve compliance, and writing behavioral objectives for instruction. Students design and deliver a formal presentation and a client-education brochure.
HP561: Evidence-based Practice I:This course introduces the basic principles and methods of Evidence-based Practice (EBP) and how to apply these methods to examine clinical questions that relate to defining clinical problems and identifying appropriate intervention options. It is the first course in a sequence that includes three subsequent courses: OT618 (Directed Study in EBP) and OT900 and 901 (Scholarly Project I and II). Topics covered in the course include; how to develop effective questions related to particular clinical decisions; conducting efficient and effective searches of Internet, library, and other resources to find evidence to answer these questions; reading, critiquing, and applying descriptive, relational, and qualitative evidence; and communicating the results of a research appraisal using the clinically appraised topic (CAT) format.
HP650: Health Care Management I:
This course introduces the fundamentals of management in the health care environment. It was designed to develop and enhance student understanding of the health care system and the social forces affecting health care, and to provide skills needed to function effectively in a management or supervisory role. Topics covered in this course include U.S. policies and legislation affecting health care management; the roles of a manager; conducting a market analysis; operating, cash and capital budgeting; process analysis; and risk management. Students will develop and execute a formal presentation. The knowledge and skills from this course will be applied in the following course, Health Care Management Practicum.
OT610: Health Promotion and Wellness:This course focuses on developing a health promotion program grounded in theory. After an introduction to the field of public health and the role of occupational therapy in the area of health promotion and wellness, the course guides the student in the development of a program related to a health issue in his or her practice setting. The student will be introduced to frameworks and theories from public health and other disciplines, and will then apply these as he or she develops a health promotion program. The student will read about and discuss programs in health promotion at the individual, group, and population level, for people with and without disabilities, and in a variety of environments.
OT615: Practicum in Education: This course builds on the knowledge and skills that were developed in the Educational Theory and Practice course through further application to the student's own workplace or community. Much of the work for the practicum involves completing two major teaching assignments in the context of a mentoring relationship with an assigned peer partner. The peer-mentoring model gives each student the opportunity to serve as a mentor and to be mentored. Reflection and dialogue are used to facilitate professional and personal growth through the experience of mentorship.
OT616: Practicum in Health Care Management:The Health Care Management Practicum was designed to develop and enhance knowledge and skills acquired or refined in HP650_OT. Emphasis in this practicum is on managing human resources, entrepreneurship, technology and information, budgeting and performance evaluation, quality management and measuring performance. The capstone of this practicum is the development of a business plan.
Curriculum, courses and program requirements are subject to change.
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