Thursday, January 8, 2009

Health promotion for OTs

A recent e-mail that made me happy...I changed her name/location. I gave her some tips but if anybody wants to chime in, please feel free.

AOTA! Check it out!!

My name is "Jane Doe" and I regularly read your blog! I wanted to say that I love the blog as it opened up my eyes to OT and I learned a lot about the profession. Your blog is one of the reasons I am applying to OT school because it gave me a perspective of OT from a student's view! I am actually in the process of applying to a master of OT program in "Doeland"(I am from "Dooda") and I was wondering if you can give me some tips.

I have to submit an essay discussing OT as part of my application and it's due this Friday! and I am freaking out...one of the question is to describe a trend in health care and how OT is positioned to play a leadership role. I was thinking of maybe discussing the switch in healthcare to health promotion and disease prevention but I am a little unclear on how OTs can play a role in this.

If you can give me any tips I would really appreciate it!

Thanks and keep up the great work on the BLOG!


2 comments:

Cheryl said...

Always good to take a look at the issues on AOTA.org ... that will give you ideas about how OTs are connected to different policies and give you some information that the professors are probably looking for.

Buckeyebrit said...

Thats fantastic! Great evidence to show how blogging (by a great blogger of course!) has such potential for our profession.