EXCELLENCE AT OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY DIVISION
The Occupational Therapy Division has been established in the Faculty of Physical Therapy and Applied Movement Science at the year of 2006. Five academic staffs have been working on an undergraduate curriculum which is approved by the Mahidol University Council on 21 September 2007. This curriculum starts recruiting the first year of occupational therapy students on 2 June 2008. Three clinical staffs have been working on clinical services as well as academic services. Action of research and development has been initiated in order to encourage research and clinical reasoning skills for all clinical and academic staffs. Two areas of research productivity included 1) Fatigue/stress management and physiological approach and 2) Knowledge management in leisure and social participation.
The excellence at the Occupational Therapy Division, even this is a new division, could be demonstrated by the following innovations:
· The first publication of Occupational Therapy - Mahidol Clinic System (OT-MCS) in the Journal of Health Systems Research
· The first creation of Multi-Sensory Tent with an economic instrumentation
· The first development of Learning Participation Assessment in school aged children with and without Attention-Deficit-Hyperactive Disorders (ADHD)
· The first Community of Practice (CoP) and Knowledge Management (KM) in screening form of occupational performance combined with activity and participation, and creating a collaborative Blog of monthly meeting for physical and occupational therapists.
· The first trails on various clinical research including fatigue and leisure management, sensory stimulations and cognitive training approach as multidisciplinary, low vision rehabilitation, recovery model and psychosocial performance, ecological model and school performance, life skills training model, and organizational development and group dynamic.
· The first academic services in training workshops including work assessments in occupational therapy for international company, recovery model in Thai institutes of psychosocial rehabilitation, ecological model in special school setting, group dynamic seminar for administrative people, clinical reasoning skills in a private setting, and physiological approach in occupational therapy.
