Once you decide that you want to apply to OT school and become an occupational therapist, you will quickly discover that letters of recommendation for OT school are a critical component of your application. In this article, we’ll explore why these OT school letters of recommendation are so important and we’ll go through tips for […]
According to The National Cancer Institute, the number of people living with and beyond a cancer diagnosis reached nearly 16.9 million in 2019 and is expected to rise to 22.2 million by 2030. Additionally, the National Cancer Institute estimates that 39.5% of both men and women in the U.S. will be diagnosed with cancer at […]
If you’re applying to OT schools, you may have found yourself Googling something like “best occupational therapy schools/best occupational therapy programs” at least once or twice. There a few articles that come up, but almost all of these articles are not written by OTs that have gone through an OT program, and they don’t indicate […]
If you’re an occupational therapy practitioner or OT student searching for occupation-based dynamic balance interventions for your adult-setting rehab patients, then this article is just for you! Occupation-based interventions are not only our bread and butter as OTs, and by using them in our treatments they can help differentiate us from our physical therapy colleagues. […]
Imposter syndrome in occupational therapy is an all-too-common phenomenon that I regularly see come up in almost all of the OT Facebook groups and forums. Despite how common imposter syndrome in OT is, it can still feel a bit taboo to talk about, especially in person at work where you’re feeling it the most. I […]
As occupational therapy practitioners and students, we know that functional mobility is an essential part of completing ADLs and IADLs. We all need to move in order to function in our daily lives (when able), so targeting your patients’ impaired mobility is crucial to also improving their ADL performance. Addressing functional mobility is in our […]
As I was talking with one of my OT coworkers about her new job working as a home health OT, we quickly got on the subject of what every home health occupational therapist or COTA needs in their home health “toolbox.” We came up with a few of the basics, but I felt like more […]
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I get a lot of pre-occupational therapy readers here at My OT Spot, and a common question I get from the pre-OT crowd is, “Is occupational therapy school hard?” While I’ve talked about this a bit in other OT school-related articles, I realized I needed to give this question an article of its own, for […]
If you’ve landed on this article, you may have Googled something along the lines of “Occupational therapist Burnout,” or “Occupational therapy burnout.” If this is the case, you’re probably feeling the “burn” of the stressful demands of our career field as well as the healthcare system in general. You aren’t alone: burnout in the occupational […]