My Doctorate In Occupational Therapy

I truly feel that this class was beneficial to me due to, as simple as it sounds, I did not know the amount conversation that is currently happening within and around our profession. Again, while we do all have memberships with the AOTA, I do not feel that I would have found and learned about these issues myself. In addition to some of my own laziness, I think that a huge factor that kept me from wanting to learn about these issues on my own would be that I did not really know where to start. Now, not only do I know where to start to continue my inquiry in this area, I have a foundation of this knowledge. This foundation includes, not only the areas that we talked about in class, but also has given rise to interesting follow up questions I am interested in inquiring about. …show more content…
While I had been considering the idea as an underclassman, at that point the idea was still fairly abstract. Now that I am very close to finishing the spring semester of my third year, this is no longer the case. While it is an option to get my master’s degree and then immediately look into getting my OTD, I think I would prefer to work a few years in the field and then go back. At this point in my life, I think that is what I will do, but I am also concerned that if I do not go and get my OTD right after I graduate I will not go at all. Again, even though I am closer to graduation the OTD and when and where I will get it is still a little bit abstract for