If you’re interested in becoming an occupational therapist, you might be asking yourself: “How do I even get into occupational therapy school?” You’ve likely started the research process and might feel a bit overwhelmed with all of the information out there. I want to simplify the process for you and provide you with a list […]
What are the best pre-occupational therapy undergraduate majors to choose from? If you’re seriously considering occupational therapy as a career, there are many undergraduate majors to choose from before you start grad school for occupational therapy. Because of this, I wanted to lay out 7 great undergraduate options to choose from prior to getting your Master’s […]
When I was discovering occupational therapy as a career, I was super familiar with what occupational therapists did in inpatient rehab settings, and was somewhat aware that OTs worked with kids in schools. I’d heard of occupational therapists working in patients’ home settings as well, but looking back, I really didn’t know anything about this […]
If you’ve been practicing occupational therapy for a few years, it’s totally normal to feel a bit burned out from time to time. A great way to feel recharged about occupational therapy is to take yourself back to why you became an OT practitioner in the first place. It’s also fun to read about others’ […]
If you’re applying to OT schools, I’m sure you’ve Googled “best occupational therapy schools” at least once or twice. There a few lists that show up, but many of these articles are not written by OTs that have gone through an OT program, and they don’t indicate how they came up their rankings. Because of […]
We’re so happy to feature a Day in the Life of an OT Student, written by Sarah Schwarz, OTS. Thank you so much, Sarah, for sharing your OT school experiences! For those who are interested in applying to an occupational therapy program you may be wondering what all happens in a typical day in the […]
If you’re new to discovering the awesome career path of occupational therapy and are curious about all of the different occupational therapy settings you can work in, look no further. There are so many settings to choose from, whether it’s providing occupational therapy services in a hospital, rehab facility, clinic, school, in the patient’s own […]
As an occupational therapist, I think I am destined to forever answer the question, “So what exactly is occupational therapy?” The old joke goes, “But I don’t need a job!” And while I have only heard that come out of a patient’s mouth a couple of times in over a decade of clinical work, I […]
Patients receiving therapy might not always be able to tell you the difference between occupational therapy vs. physical therapy, which might be surprising considering the massive impact each therapy can have on their lives. In fact, a majority of people who have had no direct contact with either of the fields may not be aware […]
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 blog posts, I realized I needed to give this question an article of its own, […]