VAOTEC Meetings

• Participants earn continuing education units each time they attend the VAOTEC Quarterly Meeting.   

Virginia Type 2 Continuing Education Units

• The supervision of occupational therapy students is a type 2 continuing education activity that can be used toward Virginia license renewal with the Department of Health Professions, Virginia Board of Medicine.  Each hour of supervision is equal to one hour of Type 2 Activity and practitioners can include up to ten hours each renewal cycle.  

National Board for Certification in Occupational Therapy Professional Development Units  

• The NBCOT identifies fieldwork supervision as a professional development activity that may be used towards recertification. One Professional Development Unit per FW I student and 1 unit per 1 week of Fieldwork II supervision is awarded. Clinicians are able to collect a maximum of 18 units over a 3 year period for Fieldwork Supervision.

Designed specifically for fieldwork educators and academic fieldwork coordinators, this unique 2-day training will be held in convenient workshops throughout the country. Here's what you can expect to gain:

• Deeper understanding of your role as a fieldwork educator

• Effective strategies to integrate learning theories and supervision models

• Increased skills to provide high-quality educational opportunities during fieldwork experiences

• Interaction with trainers through dialogue and reflections about fieldwork

• Engagement in 4 curricular modules: administration, education, supervision, and evaluation

• Analysis of strategies to support best practice in fieldwork education

• Continuing education credit (15 contact hours) toward licensure renewal

Earners of the Occupational Therapy Fieldwork Educator badge have successfully demonstrated the basic knowledge and skills required to initiate and oversee a clinical fieldwork education program. Earners understand the roles and responsibilities of this role as well as the needs of the fieldwork student. Badge holders are able to work with academic institutions to ensure that systems and strategies are in place that meet ACOTE standards and provide positive student outcomes.

• Total 6 contact hours; 6 CEU

For most of us, there will come a time in our professional career when we will either work alongside or supervise fieldwork students. Awareness of ethical issues that may arise in these situations and thoughtful ways to analyze and resolve them is an important skill. This online course provides helpful information on fieldwork ethics to the student, fieldwork educator, and academic fieldwork coordinator. This course is appropriate for clinical fieldwork educators, academic fieldwork coordinators and occupational therapy and occupational therapy assistant students.

Lauren Carter-Smith and Patty Laverdure maintain a Padlet of tools and resources for effective fieldwork education.