Master of Science in Occupational Therapy
The Master of Science in Occupational Therapy offers an academic continuation for professional Bachelors in Occupational Therapy. The study programme’s starting point is the profession’s own finality: ‘occupation’ or human contextual action. The programme has three essential objectives: academic research, quality assurance and management, and professional development and innovation.
Course | Ref | MT1 | Semester | Language | Instructor | Crdt |
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1
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sem 1
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en
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Lieven Annemans
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4
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1
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sem 1
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nl
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Ignaas Devisch
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5
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1
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sem 2
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nl
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Dominique Van de Velde
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3
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1
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sem 2
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nl
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Jan Vande Moortel
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4
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1
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sem 1
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nl
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Johan Christiaens
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6
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1
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sem 1
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nl
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Dominique Van de Velde
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10
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1
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sem 2
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nl
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Annemie Spooren
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5
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1
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sem 2
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nl
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Daphne Kos
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3
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Course | Ref | MT1 | Semester | Language | Instructor | Crdt |
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1
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year
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nl
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Daphne Kos
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20
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Final Competences of the Study Programme
Programme-specific learning results of the Transition programme Occupational Therapy Sciences
The following tables provide an overview of the programme-specific learning results of the transition year. Each learning result has a specific code; for instance, SW1 stands for Transition year, Scientific learning line and sequential number 1.
With respect to objective 1: the scientific learning line
SW.1
Possess insight into the different methods of scientific research (both qualitatively and quantitatively) and in research ethics.
SW.2
Possess insight into the statistical processing of collected research data.
SW.3
Critically analyse and interpret the scientific research literature on occupational therapy and subjects related to the profession.
SW.4
Use correct assessment instruments.
SW.5
Prove the effectiveness of scientific methods for occupational therapeutic research.
SW.6
Exhibit an analytical and synthetic ability and an independent problem-solving ability.
SW.7
Possess a critical-reflective research attitude.
With respect to objective 2: the innovation learning line
SI.1
Be able to explore and survey the possibilities and limitations of the client and the client system using a research-based, occupational therapeutic assessment. Know and apply clinimetric aspects.
SI.2
Grasp the concept of the various different occupational therapeutic practical and process models and provide critically and ethically responsible reasoning thereon and develop one’s own vision based on the literature and existing standards and protocols.
With respect to objective 3: the management learning line
SM.1
Know the structure and the organisation of the health care sector in Belgium.
SM.2
Possess knowledge of and insight into the legal framework with respect to health care.
SM.3
Link the concept of occupation to the concepts of health and welfare.
SM.4
Assess occupational therapeutic activities within an interdisciplinary team.
SM.5
Place the concepts of health and welfare in a broad societal framework and possess insight into the influencing social, cultural and physical environmental factors as possible causes, consequences, barriers and facilitators with respect to welfare and health.
SM.6
Know and apply the principles of quality care, quality change and quality assurance.
SM.7
Possess insight into the principles of human resource management and apply the same in a training context
Programme-specific learning results of the Master of Occupational Therapy Sciences ProgrammeMaster year
The following tables provide an overview of the programme-specific learning results of the master year. Each learning result has a specific code; for instance, MW1 stands for Master year, Scientific learning line and sequential number 1.
With respect to objective 1: the scientific learning line
MW1.1
Independently set up a socially relevant research question founded on the occupational therapeutic and profession-related scientific literature.
MW1.2
Fully autonomously write a transparent occupational therapeutic research proposal taking all ethical aspects into account.
MW1.3
Independently select and apply the appropriate statistical tests (quantitative research) and analysis techniques (qualitative research) to the collected data in order to obtain an answer to an occupational therapeutic research question.
MW1.4
Assess the value of the analysed research outcomes and relate these to the existing literature with respect to occupational therapy and occupational science.
MW.2.1
Show detailed knowledge of the occupational therapeutic (and/or occupational science) subject studied to colleagues and non-colleagues by means of a presentation and a publishable written report.
MW2.2
Translate the analysed research outcomes to occupational therapeutic practice and take responsibility for the research outcomes.
With respect to objective 2: the innovation learning line
MI1.1
Make an informed choice, on the basis of the scientific literature and target-group-related applicability, from published occupational therapeutic practical or process models and process this in the clinical decision-making process.
MI1.2
Integrate the autonomously chosen occupational therapeutic practical and process models in interventions with children, adults and with the elderly within all relevant welfare and health care institutions and take responsibility for the same.
MI1.3
Recognise and acknowledge the uncertainties, ambiguity and limitations of specific occupational therapeutic knowledge within a mono- and multidisciplinary framework and with this attitude, make a contribution to the body of knowledge of occupational therapy and/or occupational science using correct scientific methods.
MI2.1
Autonomously, critically and scientifically assess research outcomes and translate and implement these in prevention, diagnosis, treatment and in counselling services for complex occupational therapeutic problems.
MI2.2
Make a contribution to the development of occupational therapeutic and/or multidisciplinary evidence-based guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of specific and complex occupational therapeutic problems.
MI2.3
Make the knowledge gained with respect to the occupational therapeutic, evidence-based interventions available for use by practising occupational therapists by means of dissemination in reports and journals.
MI3.1
Professionally inform and supervise team members and colleagues with respect to the implementation of specialised scientific knowledge and specific complex occupational therapeutic skills, taking into account the ethical and deontological code within a mono- or multidisciplinary setting.
MI4.1
Lifelong personal development and continuing education in both the clinical and/or scientific field from an academic scientific attitude.
MI4.2
Indicate the societal occupational therapeutic consequences and needs from demographic changes.
MI4.3
Possess insight into the changing societal vision on disease and health and be able to argue and integrate the paradigm shift from a biomedical to a bio-psycho-social and ecological manner of reasoning in the health care sector into the clinical setting.
MI.5
Compare the profession and the professional field with that of other aid workers in a national and international context, researching and supporting the role and profession of the occupational therapist in this regard.
MI.6
Continually question the basic concepts of human activity (occupation), collect data and make a contribution to the body of knowledge of occupational science.
MI7.1
Individually correct complex occupational therapeutic dossiers in order to compile an evidence-based treatment protocol.
MI8.1
Possess specialised knowledge of the aetiology, the pathogenesis and the symptomatology of specific and complex pathologies (of choice), integrate these in the clinical reasoning process and subsequently autonomously generalise these to unknown, but also complex pathologies.
With respect to objective 3: the management learning line
MM1.1
Possess knowledge in the collaboration processes of employees and possess insight into the different manner of providing leadership to professionals in the health care sector and welfare.
MM1.2
Plan, organise and provide leadership to professionals in welfare and health care (and specifically the occupational therapy setting) in the context of a starting leadership role and take full responsibility for the same.
MM2.1
Be able to start, execute, assess and correct a professionally focused project, taking into account the specific context, subsidisation and accountability, from the basic principles of accrual accounting.
MM2.2
Be able to form an opinion on how financial-economic reporting originates and how such reporting provides insight into the financial situation of the occupational therapeutic setting in order to be able to independently realise the financial management of the service (and the welfare and health care institution).
MM3
Develop general prevention and health measures and provide advice for (political) policy and legislation.
MM4.1
Provide a framework for the Belgian health care system within the different health care typologies and take these into account in their occupational therapeutic practical organisation and execution.
MM4.2
Be able to independently predict policy developments using insight into the increasing impact of European health care policy on national health care systems.