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Many people interested in a medical career are often not aware of the field of Occupational Therapy. A career as an Occupational Therapist is both personally and financially rewarding. Occupational Therapists help patients with a wide number of conditions that include developmental disabilities, training patients with permanent disabilities to utilize adaptive equipment, motor skills rehabilitation, repair short term memory loss, improving decision making, as well as creating and implementing rehabilitation plans and evaluating a patient's progress. Basically, Occupational Therapy is a type of therapy that helps people return to their previous occupations.

Education

To become an Occupational Therapist, one needs to complete a university undergraduate degree in a Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science degree program. The undergraduate degree usually takes four years and then one must obtain a graduate degree in Occupational Therapy. Occupational therapy courses include biology, physical, and behavioral sciences. Examples of specific classes include anatomy, kinesiology, developmental psychology, pathology, neurology, geriatrics, pediatrics..etc. There are also occupational therapy skills and theory courses. Included in the program is a 6 month work term. Occupational Therapy students must pass national and state examinations. Those who pass the exam are awarded the title, "Occupational Therapist Registered (OTR)." Some states have additional stipulations for therapists who work in such areas as schools or early intervention programs. These requirements can include an early intervention certification, an education practice certificate, or other education classes.

Occupational therapists are expected to continue their professional education by taking continuing education classes and workshops. In fact, a number of states stipulate continuing education as a requirement of maintaining licensure.

For those interested in a career in Occupational Therapy, taking high school courses in the sciences, physics, health, and social sciences, is recommended. Work experience, either paid or volunteer, is a highly valuable asset.

Occupational Therapy Jobs

Occupational therapists work in a wide variety of areas of the medical profession. They can work in schools, hospitals, children's hospitals, home health, rehabilitation facilities, children's clinics, nursing homes, home care, out-patient care, private practices, health boards, community mental health centers, clinics, halfway houses, groups homes, vocational programs, community action groups, and workers compensation boards.

They can also be found working as consultants for businesses, organizations, and governments. Government work can be in the areas of rehabilitation program development, health awareness and programs, disability prevention and management, accessibility, and vocational and health planning.

Occupational therapists are also finding employment as teachers in undergraduate and graduate health profession programs

Job Outlook

Employment opportunities are expected to increase, especially for therapists who treat the elderly. They are also increasingly taking on more supervisory roles. Changing societal needs have caused an increased demand for Occupational Therapists. Some of these changes include:

- An increase in accident survival
- Increased disability awareness
- Aging population.
- Increase in stress, mental health issues, and personal and family issues
- Increase in public awareness about health issues

To be an Occupational Therapist, one needs to be patient, able to motivate others, be creative, and have strong interpersonal skills. Due to its wide variety of career options, people who become Occupational Therapists will find an area that is both rewarding and satisfying.

I ended that article by explaining that the report that you send to your patient's referring physician, should be well-written, its presentation flawless. It should be extremely patient-specific. It should explain, in terms that are familiar to the MD/DO, what you found in examining this patient, what types of evaluation/tests you carried out, what steps you are taking to remedy the situation, and what results you've seen already and expect to see as the treatment plan progresses.

You should explain to the general practitioner that you are sending the report on his or her patient as a professional courtesy and to provide an opportunity to ask you any questions about the patient or treatment or chiropractic treatment in general. There should be no hint of a solicitation of any sort.

Of course, not every MD/DO is going to respond to this type of report. There are those who are too set in their ways of prescribing drugs and relying on surgery to look at an alternative approach. But there are others, more progressive, who don't really want to go on month after month prescribing addictive painkillers to patients when they are visibly producing no results, or who really don't think exploratory surgery is the answer to a particular patient's problem, and would jump at a possible alternative if they knew there was one available.

In addition, more and more informed patients are demanding these types of alternatives from their general practitioners, and the doctors may be looking for someone who can help them.

Your report will get these MDs/DOs thinking. Eventually they will come across another patient with similar symptoms, perhaps, and think, "There's no harm in trying, I suppose. Why don't I refer Mr. Jones to this chiropractor. Maybe he can do something for him."

So, even if it's a bit of a guarded referral at first, the GP sends Mr. Jones to you, and you provide treatments that greatly improve Mr. Jones' condition. You send progress reports to the referring MD/DO.

The doctor is pleased that something was done for Mr. Jones and a relationship is forged, and the MD/DO starts sending you patients regularly.

Everybody wins in this scenerio. The patients get the treatment that is really needed. You get new patients who, already firmly ensconced in the medical fold, might never otherwise have seen a chiropractor. The MD/DO is relieved that a successful, non- damaging cure has been found for patients who might otherwise have continued to suffer.

The referral even makes the referring doctor look good - he or she is now seen as a progressive doctor who will recommend whatever treatment is appropriate to get the best results for the patient. And of course, the general practitioner continues to see the patient for any problems of a medical nature.

Of course, the key to this marketing approach is the quality and comprehensiveness of the reports that you send to your patients' referring physicians.

And that's where Report Master comes in. The quality of the reports, and their comprehensiveness both being vital in this type of campaign, the next question is how long should it take to produce such reports?

Report Master takes the work out of the Narrative and SOAP Note writing process, so you'll have more time to do the things you would rather be doing, and still maintain the necessary quality in your reports that most MD/DOs demand.

In my next article, I will cover the actual Reports themselves. What are the key ingredients of a good report, the general sequence of the various sections of the Report, etc.

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Ron Savelo has sinced written about articles on various topics from Fitness, Careers and Job Hunting. Ron Savelo is the founder and CEO of , and the creator of the #1 Chiropractic Daily SOAP Notes and Narrative Report Writer in the industry,. Ron Savelo's top article generates over 9900 views. to your Favourites.