M7D Master of Occupational Therapy

Overview 2023

Entry Requirements: See entry requirements

Duration: Minimum 2 Years, up to a maximum of 5 Years

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Learn how to support people to overcome challenges and help them to live a more meaningful life.

The Master of Occupational Therapy will prepare you to work with people and communities to enhance their ability to engage in the occupations (activities) they need, want, or are expected to perform. Adopting a strength-based approach occupational therapists use a range of strategies to help those affected by injury or illness, psychological or emotional difficulties, developmental delays or ageing to participate in meaningful occupations.

You will learn how to support people to overcome barriers and to use alternative techniques to achieve their goals. Your studies include how to communicate effectively with clients from all backgrounds and work as part of an interdisciplinary team. You will develop skills in clinical reasoning and reflective, evidence-based practice. You will undertake community-based projects and authentic experiential learning activities to enable you to develop and apply lean, system thinking skills, and respond to complex health care problems as an ethical practitioner.

This course will ensure you are capable of working with individuals, families, and carers, in teams and with other health professionals across a range of settings, including rural and remote areas.

Graduates of the Master of Occupational Therapy will complete the degree equipped with the theoretical and practical skills required to practice as a registered Occupational Therapist.

Course objectives

The Master of Occupational Therapy is designed to set up a new generation of agile health professionals, capable of providing client-centered, quality, and safe health care.

With many graduate job opportunities currently available and anticipated to grow, our objective is to prepare students to be leaders in current and emerging jobs, by forging relationships with communities, mentors and health and social care facilities to apply their skills across sectors.

In preparing for modern practice, students will be digitally equipped, and have the right mindset to become leaders of future health care improvements across private and public practice settings as they develop in their career.

Learning Outcomes

1 Apply core values and principles of occupational therapy to recognise people as occupational beings and use a high level of professionalism and make sound legal, ethical and socially responsible decisions in practice.

2 Identify and apply key theoretical conceptual practice approaches to safe quality occupational therapy practice.

3 Communicate effectively with people, their families, significant others, and referrers to meet their occupational needs in a culturally appropriate and collaborative manner.

4 Apply evidence-based practice and clinical reasoning to provide occupational therapy for individuals, communities, and populations across a range of current and future practice contexts.

5 Demonstrate agility, commitment to ongoing professional development and life-long, self-directed learning and critical reflective practice for working in complex and changing environments.

6 Ability to function as leaders and change agents for the occupational therapy profession, and actively drive system reform. through inquiry, innovation, research literacy and the translation of research into practice and practice into research.

Practical experience

During your studies, you will:

Build vital professional skills in client-centered care, quality assurance, evidence-based practice, interprofessional teamwork and leadership through authentic case and problem-based learning.
Work in an on-campus simulated learning environment, to practice occupational therapy assessment and intervention skills and enhance your clinical reasoning.
Undertake hands-on learning in real healthcare environments across Tasmania with experienced occupational therapists to learn about contextual aspects of population health and service delivery.

Safety in Practice Compliance

This course includes compulsory Professional Experience Placements. You must meet the College of Health and Medicine's Safety in Practice Requirements before census date of the first semester of your course. The safety in practice requirements are completed separately to the course admission application.

Career outcomes

Allied Health professionals are in high demand across the health sector with employment for occupational therapists projected to increase in Australia by 17.1% by November 2025*.

Our Master of Occupational Therapy will provide you with qualifications that can lead to various job opportunities in Tasmania, Australia and overseas.

As an occupational therapist, you can work across a range of different industries including;

Acute Care (Hospitals)
Aged Care
Community Health
Disability
Early Intervention
Education
Government
Health Promotion
Mental Health
Private Industry
Rehabilitation
Social Services

*Australian Government Department of Education, Skills and Employment, 2020 Occupational Projections.

Professional Accreditation

This program is subject to accreditation by the Occupational Therapy Council (A and NZ).

If you have any queries about the accreditation process, please contact us for further information.

Course structure

Year 1

CAM520

Location	Study period	Attendance options		Available to
Hobart	Semester 1
Launceston	Semester 1
Cradle Coast	Semester 1
Online	Semester 1

Master of Occupational Therapy (M7D)

Overview 2023

Entry Requirements

Duration

Duration

Location

Safety in Practice Compliance

Career outcomes

Course structure

Global Health Systems

Introduction to Public Health

Becoming an Allied Health Professional

Foundations of Occupational Therapy

Occupational Therapy Practice 1

Occupational Therapy Practice 2

Systems, Occupation and Engagement

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health and Wellbeing

Leadership in Health and Human Services

Health Research Methods

Therapy Across the Lifespan

Transitioning to Community-Based Allied Health Practice

Occupational Therapy Practice 3

Occupational Therapy Practice 4

Chronicity, Complexity and Service Delivery

Health, Environment and Ability

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