At first glance this appears as a commercial for continuing education. However, bypass the ad and click on occupational therapy to find articles for free.
Do a search to find the occupational therapy resources. Online version of a magazine for occupational therapy practitioners that states that it "is committed to helping therapists enhance their impact on the healthcare industry". This website offers information from their annual salary survey, a variety of columns, patient handouts, references, blogs, forums and webcasts related to occupational therapy practice. Recently, other professions were added.
Type of Material:
Reference Material
Recommended Uses:
A great reference for all occupational therapy practitioners and students.
Technical Requirements:
internet access
Identify Major Learning Goals:
This magazine does not state any specific learning goals. The magazine provides current information for occupational therapy. It includes interactive continuing education entitled learning scope online.
Other health professions are also found at the overall site
Target Student Population:
The population is occupational therapy students at all levels.
Occupational therapists
Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:
none
Content Quality
Rating:
Strengths:
The columns are often very current and significant to practice for occupational therapy practitioners. Many of the blogs and forums present issues that are very relevant.
Concerns:
The articles that are provided are not peer reviewed and are often not research based. The content is very popular based on questions from the readership.
The website has changed throughout the years and recently includes other professions, so it necessary to search for occupational therapy resources as they are not explicitly listed.
Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching Tool
Rating:
Strengths:
Based on its objective, the resource is very effective in providing current information about occupational therapy practice. The material does facilitate learning. The information does engage the learner and is motivating due to its timely information.
Concerns:
Students need to be able to determine the validity and relability of some of the artciles in terms the degree of quality to be cited in research articles.
Finding the occupational therapy resources is not easy. Do a search to find.
Ease of Use for Both Students and Faculty
Rating:
Strengths:
The information is found by searching for occupational therapy.
Concerns:
Somewhat difficult to find the occupational therapy resources. Do a search.
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