MiOTA Annual Conference 2020

RECORDED PRESENTATION
CHAT TRANSCRIPT

We will introduce a partnership between the Eastern Michigan University (EMU) Occupational Therapy program and the University of Michigan Dental School. This partnership aimed to enhance the competence and confidence of occupational therapy students through a one time experiential population-based intervention. Our literature review supports that experiential learning enhances students’ confidence and clinical skills. We will present the foundational work that EMU did to prepare students as well as the findings of our research on how students felt the experience impacted them as practitioners. This is relevant to occupational therapy programs because it emphasizes the importance of hands-on learning and gives a framework for programs to collaborate with other fields.