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My name is Eleanor and I am a 3rd year medical student at Brighton and Sussex Medical School. I am writing this first blog because I wanted to share some of my experiences in setting up a small group…

When I set out to create a college course about sustainability from the lens of an occupational therapist, I had no idea if it would create any real impact. Would students really care about how their…

Hello everyone- I teach in the Dept of OT at Ithaca College, in Ithaca New York, USA. I recently completed my doctoral research looking at the role of occupational therapy in the emerging field of…

Those of you that read my previous OT Susnet bloglast November may rightly have been expecting a number of other blogs to follow shortly afterwards. Indeed, I said that they would be. The next month I…

How can healthcare educators prepare their students for the clinical consequences of an increasingly unstable climate? What role can teachers and trainers have in changing clinical practice to support…

Dear OT Susnet friends,we would like to follow in the footsteps of the Green Nephrology network and start a case library of OT Susnet case studies - to share experiences of making OT departments run…

We are pleased to announce the upcoming special issue of the journal WORK: A Journal of Prevention, Assessment and Rehabilitation (IOS Press) which will focus exclusively on Green Ergonomics,…

Hi all,Here is a link to the COT's specialist section on learning disabilities, they are calling on OT's to produce an audit tool that service users can use to evaluate their own living space. This…

(Beaver dam and aspens from the Deer Valley Grocery-Café, Park City, Utah)In October 2011, I had the privilege of helping Mami Aoyama and Moses Ikiugu to organize a double session on occupation and…

(Left to Right:Izuru Sakai, Mark Hudson, Teena Clouston,Marie Anne Ben, Mami Aoyama. Inset: Moses Ikiugu)The annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Occupation: USA (SSO: USA) was held in Park…