ERGOBPRA1 Occupational Therapy Practice Placement, Part 1 Course description

Through systematic work and therapeutic use of activity, the occupational therapist contributes to the possibility of activity and participation. Practical training makes up one third of the study and is a very important part of the occupational therapy programme. During this first long practical training period, the individual student will gain experience from one practical training establishment, at the same time as the class as a whole will gain insight into various forms of occupational therapy practice, as the practical training places can be in all arenas where occupational therapists work.

The student must have passed ERGOB1000 and ERGOB1100.

After completing the course, the student is expected to have achieved the following learning outcomes defined in terms of knowledge, skills and general competence:

Knowledge

The student is capable of

• describing the position of occupational therapy within the practical training establishment's framework and organising in the Norwegian health and welfare system
• describing mapping, measures and evaluations based on an occupational therapy work process model
• explaining activity analysis as a part of an occupational therapy work process
• describing cases from practical training with the help of occupational therapy models/theories

Skills

The student is capable of

• planning and implementing therapeutic use of activity under supervision, and of reflecting clinically on this work
• using a tool to carry out and document a systematic activity analysis of users
• searching for and disseminating academic literature of relevance for issues at the practical training establishment
• systematically mapping the users’ activity history, resources and challenges in occupational participation
• carrying out lifesaving first aid

General competence

The student

• is capable of adapting the way he/she communicates with users and other partners
• shows initiative and shows responsibility for own learning
• is capable of finding and referring to legislation of relevance to occupational therapy practice
• is capable of identifying and reflecting on ethical issues in relation to people who are in a learning, coping or change process
• is respectful and complies with the professional ethical guidelines for occupational therapists

The practical training period takes place over ten weeks and starts with a week’s preparation as part of the programme. During a practical training week, the students spend three days at the practical training establishment and one day on teaching activities in the programme. The students will be assigned an occupational therapist as a supervisor at the practical training establishment and a contact lecturer at the university, and the students will normally follow the working hours of the practical training establishment. The preparations and sessions include skills training, case-based teaching, lectures, group seminars and workshops with digital story telling.

The following must be approved:

• completed course in first aid
• cooperation agreement with specification of the learning outcomes

An attendance requirement also applies, see ‘assessment of practical training’ in the programme description's main part for more information.

Assessment of placement. The assessment is based on the learning outcomes for the course, the cooperation agreement with specification of the learning outcomes and the formative assessment made of the student during the practical training period.

Students’ practical training can only be assessed if their attendance is sufficiently high (90%). See ‘assessment of practical training’ in the main part of the programme description for more information.

Not relevant.

This course provides the fundamental base for geotechnical assessments by introducing the whole investigation cascade from field investigations to laboratory experiments, and ground modelling with the acquired data. A range of field techniques to obtain soil and rock samples and perform in situ testing is introduced. Students are familiarized with laboratory testing, from basic index test to the most advanced stress path apparatuses, together with the interpretation of the data obtained. The knowledge of soil behaviour will be reinforced, allowing students to understand practical problems when deriving geotechnical parameters. The compilation and integration from field and laboratory data into a geotechnical ground model will be discussed. This includes challenges and advantages of 3D ground modelling in general and in the context of Building Information Modelling (BIM) in particular.  

After completing this course, the student will gain the following knowledge, skills and general competence:

Knowledge

Students have in-depth knowledge of:

• Desk study resources, understanding your site and the conditions
• Onshore and offshore site investigation techniques related to drilling, in-situ sampling, and testing,
• Geotechnical index and advanced laboratory tests,
• Experimental data assessment and interpretation,
• Basics of 3D ground modelling with and without BIM.

Skills

Students can:

• distinguish different drilling, sampling and field techniques to be used to obtain high quality samples, and to derive geotechnical parameters in the field,
• select adequate laboratory tests for a range of geotechnical design problems and know how to interpret geotechnical laboratory tests results,
• provide a ground model for further geotechnical assessments.

General competence

Students:

• are familiar with drilling, sampling and testing field techniques, and can decide which technique to use in the field depending on the specific soil conditions,
• can understand the basic principles of geotechnical testing apparatuses and are able to conduct index and advanced tests.
• Students can interpret geotechnical tests results and critically identify advantages, and disadvantages of different testing techniques,
• Students can translate geotechnical test results into a ground model and familiar with different ground modelling techniques