I absolutely support this.  In addition to questions needing investigation via surveys, I recommend we work on facilitating student research via an array of research designs, including  experimental designs and qualitative approaches employing interviews and observation.  Perhaps we can also address how the results of the student studies can more readily be disseminated, so that the findings are available to all.

Sincerely,
Grace Fisher

Grace S. Fisher, Ed.D., OTR/L
Professor and  Chair, Occupational Therapy Department
Misericordia University
Passan Hall 121
100 Lake Street
Dallas PA
18612

phone 570-674-8015
fax 570-674-3052
email gfisher@misericordia.edu
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I agree that it would be great to open the discussion again.

The questions I would also like to see included are:
-given the current emphasis on IPE, how much emphasis will/should we place on forging a unique model for OT education?
-amongst our group of educators, how many of us participate with external groups that focus on pedagogical research? Are there any insights/takeaways that would be valuable to consider as a professional community? Should we forge partnerships with any of these professional communities/entities?
-Is there an internal economic/financial assessment of what would be needed to build a strong enough structure within our professional community to support specific educational research outcomes/provide significant pedagogical training/CE to developing academics from an OT perspective? What would need to happen within our Professional Association for that to occur? (RA motion/ AOTA Board of Directors action?). Changes in structure often involve a significant financial investment.

Just some thoughts.
Ann

Ann Burkhardt, OTD, OTR/L, BCN, FAOTA
Professor, Chair & Director of the Occupational Therapy Doctoral Program
Drake University CPHS
Harvey Ingham 030
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Greetings,
Tim raises an excellent  point. As program directors, we are in an fabulous  position to pool our collective talents and resources to collectively examine some of the important questions regarding the educational practices within our profession.  At the first OT Education Summit in 2013, the  Agenda for Occupational Therapy Education was presented. See attached PP. This agenda was based on input from multiple stakeholders throughout  our profession and provides a useful starting point for discussions. I echo other sentiments, our ALC mtgs provide  great opportunity   for us to use some time at the mtg. to develop a collective research initiative.
All the best to all of you  for the new academic year.
Warm regards,
Ellen

Ellen S. Cohn, ScD, OTR/L, FAOTA
Clinical Professor,  MSOT and entry-level OTD Program Director, Dept. of Occupational Therapy
Boston University Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
635 Commonwealth Ave
Boston, MA 02215
617-358-1063
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Tim and others
I would be in favor of having a discussion and looking at the viability of this. There would need to be some thought behind the potential questions so that they are relevant to this group vs. an expansion of now "sponsored" questions. LIke Lorie said there are just too many surveys being sent to this group. Think it is a great idea with potential!
Kristie

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This collaborative research could definitely be beneficial to the profession. I would be interested in discussing further. Ruth

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Huntington University
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Hello everyone,
I was wondering if there is any interest from this group in having the ALC facilitate a discussion around student surveys?  I know several programs have students conduct surveys to meet the ACOTE standards related to research and it seems like this may be a missed opportunity.  What if we coordinated our efforts across institutions to conduct these surveys and addressed pressing issues that could help inform our profession?  We could use the ALC to help populate a list of potential questions that different academic programs could then sign up for to have their students design and conduct the survey/study.  The academic institutions would likely be more invested in responding to the surveys as well if these questions were then feeding back to ALC, AOTA, ACOTE, etc.
Thoughts?
Best wishes
Tim

Timothy J. Wolf, OTD, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA
Associate Professor and Chair
Department of Occupational Therapy
University of Missouri
810 Clark Hall
Columbia, MO 65211
573-882-8403<tel:573-882-8403>
wolftj@health.missouri.edu<mailto:wolftj@health.missouri.edu>

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Kristie Patten Koenig, PhD, OT/L, FAOTA
Associate Professor and Department Chair

NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development
Department of Occupational Therapy

Pless Hall, 82 Washington Square East, 6th Floor
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