M7D Master of Occupational Therapy

Overview 2022

Entry Requirements: See entry requirements

Duration: Minimum 2 Years, up to a maximum of 5 Years
Duration
Duration refers to the minimum and maximum amounts of time in which this course can be completed. It will be affected by whether you choose to study full or part time, noting that some programs are only available part time.

Location

Launceston: Semester 2

Commonwealth Supported and Full Fee Paying places available (check your Letter of Offer for details)

This course may not be available to international students. Please refer to courses to explore courses that are offered to international students.

This course will be offered for the first time in Semester 2, 2023 and is not currently accepting applications.

Support people to overcome challenges and help them to live a more meaningful life

The Master of Occupational Therapy will prepare you to support growth, change and adaptation to improve health outcomes for different people, populations, and communities. Your studies will involve working with clients to help them participate more fully in life by focusing on their strengths.

You will learn how to help people overcome barriers and use alternative techniques to achieve a given task and facilitate skill improvement. Your studies will include community-based projects and authentic experiential learning activities to enable you to develop and apply lean and system thinking skills, and respond to complex health care problems.

This course will ensure you are capable of working with individuals, families, 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, 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 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.

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 therapists, you can work across a range of different industries including;

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

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

Professional Recognition

Once you graduate from this program you will have the knowledge and skills to apply for registration as an occupational therapist in Australia with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA).

This program is subject to accreditation by the Occupational Therapy Council (A and NZ) and approved by the World Federation of Occupational Therapists.

Course structure

Year 1

CAM520

Location	Study period	Attendance options		Available to
Hobart	Semester 2
Hobart	Accelerated Study Period 3
Hobart	Nursing Study Period 3
Launceston	Semester 2
Launceston	Accelerated Study Period 3
Launceston	Nursing Study Period 3
Cradle Coast	Semester 2
Cradle Coast	Accelerated Study Period 3
Cradle Coast	Nursing Study Period 3
Rozelle - Sydney	Semester 2
Rozelle - Sydney	Accelerated Study Period 3
Rozelle - Sydney	Nursing Study Period 3

Courses & Units

Master of Occupational Therapy (M7D)

Overview 2022

Entry Requirements

Duration

Duration

Location

Career outcomes

Professional Recognition

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

Community-Based Practice and Enterprise

Occupational Therapy Practice 3

Occupational Therapy Practice 4

Chronicity, Complexity and Service Delivery

Health, Environment and Ability

Entry requirements

Fees & scholarships

Domestic students

International students

Scholarships

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