Convocation 2022

CONGRATULATIONS to all our newest MScOT graduates!

Your hard work and perseverance paid off and we welcome you to our OT family.

Erin Geeraert won the Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine OT Student Clinical Education Award for this cohort for her consistent exceptional engagement and performance across all fieldwork courses. 

Bravo, Erin!

And here's a spotlight on a couple more ...

When Christine Wagner began her master’s in occupational therapy, she knew relatively little about the profession, other than its vast scope. But the new MSc graduate quickly fell in love with the complexity and connections involved in the work, as well as its roots in social justice.

For the full interview click here.

Occupational therapy grad strives for a community where everyone can thrive. Juanita Gnanapragasam plans to use her career to help people achieve good health and wellness.

For the full article click here.

New Grad OT Profiled in RHPAP's Rural Health Beat

 Noelannah Neubauer is a new grad OT practicing in Lacombe AB. 

Click here to read a profile of her in this month's RHPAP's Rural Health Beat.

Always inspiring to find out that a rural fieldwork placement sparks an early career in rural practice!

Call for Offers for Spring & Summer Placements

OCCTH 525 for our Year 2 students is underway with a few scheduling changes in order to 'roll with' the continuing pandemic realities and the variant surge. 

Thank you to all the OTs involved in fieldwork for your flexibility!

Throughout the pandemic, we have been proceeding with OT fieldwork placements in AB, SK and NWT where/whenever possible, including placements that are entirely or partially virtual. We recognize that each fieldwork site continues to have its own realities, challenges and protocols/procedures. 

Please consider offering a fieldwork placement for the following spring and summer sessions: 

Year 1/Level 1 May 16 - June 30, 2022 (7 weeks)

Year 2/Level 2 July 4 - August 19, 2022 (or any 7 weeks between June 20 and Sept 2)

Contact otclined@ualberta.ca if willing and available.

We hope at least a few of you Alberta OTs got your hands on one of these cozy SAOT toques to get your through the remaining weeks of winter!

We appreciate your consideration and ongoing support!

Happy Holidays from the UofA MScOT Fieldwork Team

 

Thank you for having done so much over so many pandemic months to support our OT students!

Wishing you rest and calm and connection over the holidays.

Calgary-based MScOT Sessional Instructor Named Top 40 Under 40

Samantha Lowe is a sessional instructor within our MScOT program and, for many years, has supervised multiple fieldwork placements at The Mustard Seed in Calgary.

Earlier this year, Samantha was awarded the CAOT 2020 Fieldwork Educator of the Year for our University of Alberta catchment area. 

Now she has been named a Avenue Magazine Calgary Top 40 Under 40 for 2021!

Read the article about Samantha Lowe here.

Congratulations, Samantha! Thank you for teaching and mentoring so many MScOT students! 

Halloween Antics & Year 3 Students in the Home Stretch

October is over and November is upon us!

It was a necessarily subdued Halloween celebration around Corbett Hall here in Edmonton but a number of students and staff still dressed up, including our hard-working but fun-loving FRM Clinical Education Administration staff ...

Then this encouraging coach (Brett Y1) showed up at my office door ...

Before joining his team (Y1 classmates) in front of Corbett Hall ...

And at our FRM Calgary satellite campus the faculty/staff coordinated yet another impressive team effort ...

FYI Inside Out is a fun, and surprisingly informative, resource that is often referenced during our in-class MScOT discussions re: therapeutic use of self! And Ted Lasso ... well, it's just a lovely show.

OCCTH 528 begins this month with our Year 3 students in the 'home stretch' for the final placement within their pandemic-extended MScOT program. They are excited to be with you 'in the field' across AB and SK and complete this final educational step toward becoming an OT! 

THANK YOU for supporting their learning!

Happy World OT Day 2021!

 

World OT Day Resources are available online.

Thanks to the hard-working, dedicated, passionate OTs in our Alberta, Saskatchewan and NWT communities for doing what you do and helping to educate future OTs too!