COURSE CURRICULUM

The MScOT curriculum is designed to provide a comprehensive blend of academic and fieldwork courses, emphasizing the integration of basic and social sciences with theory and clinical practice while preparing students for professional roles in a complex and evolving health care system. Each course builds on foundational knowledge, including anatomy, physiology, psychology, and sociology, while fostering the evaluation of knowledge and practice through current evidence and clinical reasoning. Students are encouraged to actively apply this learning to their fieldwork and other health-related experiences, promoting practical understanding alongside theoretical knowledge. The program emphasizes self-directed and transformative learning, team-based collaboration, and reflective practitioner behaviors, ensuring that students develop critical thinking, problem-solving, and professional judgment. Through this structured approach, graduates acquire the essential competencies to practice as occupational therapists while also gaining the skills needed to assume leadership roles in diverse and dynamic practice environments. The curriculum meets and exceeds professional and practice standards, equipping students with graduate-level knowledge, technical skills, ethical and professional behaviors, and the ability to respond effectively to the challenges of contemporary health care. Overall, the MScOT program fosters the development of well-rounded, competent, and adaptable professionals capable of improving patient outcomes and contributing meaningfully to the advancement of the occupational therapy profession.