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The post-professional Master of Science program consists of 32 credits, or 11 courses. Students will take two courses per semester; each lasting six weeks in duration. The program can be completed in 22 months. Students can begin the program at one of three entry points within the year; spring, summer or fall. Please contact your Admissions Advisor for the up-to-date schedule.
Select a course below for more detailed information:
OT617: Contemporary Trends in Occupational Therapy Practice:
This course examines three important current topics of discussion in the profession. The first theme is client-centered practice: What is contemporary thinking about this principle and how does my practice reflect this principle? The second theme is occupation-centered practice: What does it mean to have occupation as the core focus of practice and what are current challenges to keeping this focus? The third theme is looking outward: How do the concerns of occupational therapy relate to work emerging in other fields and where might we find knowledge to enhance our practice, or collaborators who share similar concerns and values? The course assignments are designed to facilitate critical reflection on the student's own practice in relation to these developments.
OT618: Directed Study in EBP:This course builds on the knowledge and skills that were introduced in HP561 OT and provides further practice in appraisal and application of research evidence. The course revisits some of the measurement issues introduced previously in more depth and examines other research approaches that provide evidence for practice, including single subject research and prediction designs. Additional topics include; how to use research evidence to evaluate and refine the models that guide clinical decision-making, and how to apply the methods and measures of research to gather outcomes evidence in one's own practice. The major assignments of the course are completed through participation in a virtual journal club with students collaborating in small groups to examine evidence on a question of mutual interest.
HP720: Educational Theory and Practice:
This course focuses on developing effective teaching techniques and strategies that are needed in a variety of clinical and academic contexts. Topics covered in this course include; identifying instructional settings in one's own practice, the impact of ethical, legal, and economic factors on the educational process, principles of major learning and instruction theories, effective teaching strategies for learners at different developmental stages, strategies that facilitate motivation and improve compliance, and writing behavioral objectives for instruction. Students design and deliver a formal presentation and a client-education brochure.
HP561: Evidence-based Practice:This course introduces the basic principles and methods of Evidence-based Practice (EBP) and how to apply these methods to examine clinical questions that relate to defining clinical problems and identifying appropriate intervention options. It is the first course in a sequence that includes three subsequent courses: OT618 (Directed Study in Evidence-based Practice) and OT900 and 901 (Scholarly Project I and II). Topics covered in the course include; how to develop effective questions related to particular clinical decisions; conducting efficient and effective searches of Internet, library, and other resources to find evidence to answer these questions; reading, critiquing, and applying descriptive, relational, and qualitative evidence; and communicating the results of a research appraisal using the clinically appraised topic (CAT) format.
HP650: Healthcare Management:
This course introduces the fundamentals of management in the health care environment. It was designed to develop and enhance student understanding of the health care system and the social forces affecting health care, and to provide skills needed to function effectively in a management or supervisory role. Topics covered in this course include United States policies and legislation affecting healthcare management; the roles of a manager; conducting a market analysis; operating, cash and capital budgeting; process analysis; and risk management. Students will develop and execute a formal presentation. The knowledge and skills from this course will be applied in the following course, Health Care Management Practicum.
OT610: Health Promotion and Wellness:
This course focuses on developing a health promotion program grounded in theory. After an introduction to the field of public health and the role of occupational therapy in the area of health promotion and wellness, the course guides the student in the development of a program related to a health issue in his or her practice setting. The student will be introduced to frameworks and theories from public health and other disciplines, and will then apply these as he or she develops a health promotion program. The student will read about and discuss programs in health promotion at the individual, group, and population level, for people with and without disabilities, and in a variety of environments.
OT900: Scholarly Paper I:This course gives students the opportunity to apply the skills developed in the first two evidence-based practice courses (HP561 OT and OT618 OL) to investigate an intervention question related to their own practice. Students will conduct an in-depth search for evidence, analysis of best evidence, and the outline of a synthesis that proposes the current, "best answer" to the clinical question posed. Students will work as partners to provide assistance, guidance, and feedback to each other during this structured process.
OT901: Scholarly Paper II:
This course completes the work begun in OT900. The specific emphasis of work in this course is on preparing evidence summaries in different formats that are suitable for client/consumer, management, and peer audiences.
OT615: Practicum in Education:
This course builds on the knowledge and skills that were developed in the Educational Theory and Practice course through further application to the student's own workplace or community. Much of the work for the practicum involves completing two major teaching assignments in the context of a mentoring relationship with an assigned peer partner. The peer-mentoring model gives each student the opportunity to serve as a mentor and to be mentored. Reflection and dialogue are used to facilitate professional and personal growth through the experience of mentorship.
OT616: Practicum in Healthcare Management:
The Health Care Management Practicum was designed to develop and enhance knowledge and skills acquired or refined in HP650 OT. Emphasis in this practicum is on managing human resources, entrepreneurship, technology and information, budgeting and performance evaluation, quality management and measuring performance. The capstone of this practicum is the development of a business plan.
OT905: Seminar on Practice Leadership:
This capstone course includes preparatory work, followed by a short on-campus stay and follow-up assignments. During the on-campus period, students participate in the Lead the Way Symposium. This yearly Symposium provides the students with the opportunity to present the results of their scholarly project investigations to each other, the program faculty, graduate students, alumni, and an invited audience from the greater Boston community. In addition, they participate in small, group discussions focused around future planning for practice leadership.
Curriculum, courses and program requirements are subject to change.
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