ADMISSION

Overview


Master of Occupational Therapy in Paediatrics course builds on your academic skills whilst helping you to develop the clinical competence to practice as a newly graduated occupational therapist. You explore the profession across the breadth of occupational therapy practice, experiencing several clinical and practice settings including a non-traditional context. Besides intervention strategies, you will gain experience in applying sound clinical reasoning and learn something of the professional role within the multidisciplinary and multi-agency practice.

The college is committed to the development of quality courses and to the enhancement of the student experience. This course, for practicing occupational therapists, aims to develop your knowledge and essential skills to help you progress in your career; we will encourage you to utilize evaluative, critical thinking skills to explore your profession, enabling you to make a meaningful contribution to the improvement of patient care.

As you are in an institution where the hospital is attached to the college. This will give me a better opportunity to interact with the faculties, have good clinical exposure, and one to one case discussions with the faculties. The high frequency of Patient input both in the Inpatient department as well as outpatient departments helps in ensuring that students of MOT Paediatrics will get maximum exposure and have a hands-on experience in clinical cases under the supervision of highly qualified faculties and professionals.

The course also includes micro-level teaching through a pedagogical approach which means that while attending the course student will get an opportunity to take classes and lectures from graduate students. The faculty will help the student to understand the core concept of teaching. The student will get to know about how to plan a lecture, how to systematically arrange the study material how to make lesson plans, and how to deliver lectures.

Students also get a chance to conduct workshops and CMEs with the help of faculties. As there were regular CMEs keep on happening in the institutes students got good experiences in various practices. You will develop the knowledge required to approach your practice innovatively, apply research and evidence to shape current and future practice in your home country and beyond.

This is a flexible course that allows you to tailor your own professional development to suit your needs, through a range of occupational therapy and interprofessional modules such as developing your skills in patient safety or transforming care systems and services through leadership. Your learning will be supported by experienced researchers and academics who are experts in their field.  Be part of something life-changing and take on a new challenge today. The involvement of research-active and clinical staff in course design and delivery. Making sure you are learning the most relevant and up-to-date skills in all areas in which you want to specialize.

Moreover, you get an opportunity to understand evidence-based practice in the field of orthoepic Rehabilitation. New undiscovered prospectives of research in the area of orthopaedical rehabilitation will be explored by you with our highly experienced faculty. You will get to know about the key concepts of research and why research is necessary for occupational therapy.

 

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Eligibility Criteria


The Candidate who passess BOT with 50% aggregate Marks from a Recognized University.

 

Course Duration:  2 Years(4 Semester)

 

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Course Outline


FIRST YEAR:


1. Research Methodology and Statistics
2. Application Of Occupational Therapy Theory, Assistive/Rehabilitation Technology, And Environment Adaptations
3. Professional Development
4. Practice Environments For Physical Dysfunction
5. Practice Environments in Mental Health 100 Hours
6. Practice Environments For physical Dysfunctions And Mental Health

 

SECOND YEAR:


1. Bio-Mechanics
2. Occupational Therapy In Pediatrics-I
3. Occupational Therapy In pediatrics-II
4. Professional Development & Bio-Mechanics In pediatrics Conditions
5. Occupational Therapy In  Pediatrics
6. Clinical Practice (including Dissertation)

Career Prospectives


Successful postgraduates of the course are hired in capacities such as Occupational Therapist, Research Assistant, Academician, Supervisor etc., in hospitals, rehabilitation centres, primary care, community health centres, early intervention centres, education establishments, government agencies, mental health services etc.

Furthermore, for students with dreams of settling abroad, a master’s is a necessary qualification requirement. So, the Students with a Master’s in Occupational therapy with (Paediatrics) as a specialization can work and
get there a licence for the countries like Canada, the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Australia, Newzealand, the United Arab Emirates etc.