入学和升学最低技术标准
和体检合格证明政策
The Program has identified minimum technical 站ards all students must meet and maintain for enrollment and 进展 in the Program to ensure successful completion of the Program and the delivery of safe and effective client care during FWs and following graduation. 这些技术标准, 下面列出的, 是实现计划成果所必需的 competencies stipulated by accreditation agencies, and the 站ards of OT practice.
一般健康
Students must be able to participate in all learning activities and assessments (classroom, 实验室, 和临床环境). These learning activities and assessments may require more than eight hours of active participation (sitting, 站, 执行程序, 等.) and exposure to various body fluids, communicable diseases, radiation, and toxic substances. Students must maintain a general state of physical and mental health necessary to operate under the typical demands and performance requirements of the Program and the OT profession. This includes 站ard preventive health measures such as annual immunizations. Students must be medically cleared (absence of any medical and behavioral/mental condition and communicable disease that would present harm to 客户 and/or prevent full participation in the Program's curriculum) prior to matriculation and prior to beginning the Clinical Phase of the OTD Program. All students enrolled in the Program must maintain health insurance coverage from matriculation through graduation.
批判性推理和认知能力
Students must possess the intellectual capabilities required to complete the full curriculum and achieve the competencies delineated by the Program and the OT profession. 批判性推理需要智力来衡量, 计算, 合成, 并分析大量复杂的信息. The ability to comprehend three-dimensional and spatial relationships of structures is also required.
计算机技术技能
Students must be able to utilize computerized information technology to access learning management systems, 参与同步和异步学习, 有工作麦克风, 工作的摄像头, 记录能力, 参与计算机化测试, 进行研究, 准备多媒体演示文稿, 访问在线医疗信息, 检查并输入电子病历数据. 因此, possession of a personal laptop and access to the internet for web-enhanced and web-based courses are required.
沟通技巧
学生必须会说话, 听到, 观察客户，收集相关数据, 描述的观察, 感知非语言交流. 学生必须能够沟通, 口头及书面, 与同事相处, 教员/员工, 客户, 家庭, and members of the health care team from different social and cultural backgrounds with sensitivity, 清晰, 和准确性.
视觉能力
Students must have the visual acuity needed to evaluate a client during a physical examination, 监控客户端稳定性, and perform a wide range of interventions involved in the practice of occupational therapy.
听觉和触觉能力
Students must have the motor and sensory functions needed to elicit information from 客户 by physical assessment, as well as perform a wide range of interventions involved in the practice of occupational therapy.
运动与精细技能
The provision of client care often requires upright posture with sufficient total body strength, 流动性, 心血管耐力. Students must be able to tolerate physically taxing workloads and be able to sit, 站, 并在很长一段时间内进行其他活动. Students must be able to execute the physical movements required to maneuver in small places, 校准和使用设备, 定位和移动客户端, and perform interventions involved in the practice of occupational therapy.
人际交往能力
学生必须具备广泛的人际交往能力, including (1) management of high-stress situations while maintaining full intellectual abilities, (2)运用良好的判断力, (3)时间管理(准时到达, 优先考虑活动, 高效完成任务), (4)发育成熟, 敏感的, 以及与同学之间有效的关系, 教师, 工作人员, 医疗组的所有成员, 还有客户和他们的家人, (5) recognition of one's own emotional state and the emotional states of others, (6)积极管理个人情绪，缓解压力, 有效沟通, 同情他人, 克服挑战, 化解冲突, (7) engagement with 客户 and 家庭 in a way that establishes confidence and trust, and (8) acceptance of constructive criticism and initiation of appropriate behavior modification.
所有参加本课程的学生必须能够独立学习, 或者提供合理的住宿, 展示这些健康标准, 认知和运动技能, 以及项目入学的专业行为, 进展, 和毕业. Students with disabilities are responsible for contacting the Office of Accessible Education Services. For contact information and to learn more about the Office of Accessible Education Services, 浏览网址: (http://c9ag.605062.com/student-life/accessible-education-services.php)要求住宿. 程序尝试, 尽其所能, to develop mechanisms by which otherwise qualified applicants for admission and enrolled students can be accommodated; however, the Program's 入学和升学最低技术标准 must be maintained in order to ensure that all parts of the Program's curriculum are delivered to all students and that students provide safe and effective client care. Clinical Affiliates that provide FWs/Capstones expect students to have met the Program's 入学和升学最低技术标准 and to perform assigned duties in a timely manner as such ability is critical and essential to safe and effective client care. 因此, extra time is not granted to students during assessments of physical examination and clinical procedure skills, 模拟客户接触, 及完成在护理期间照顾客户的职责. 类似的, the use of trained intermediaries is not approved in the assessments listed above and in FW/Capstone.
Students must submit a signed attestation form stating that they are able to meet the minimal technical 站ards to participate fully in the Program's curriculum prior to matriculation. Students must upload the signed attestation into the Exxat Approve Module. 学生不需要将证明表格交回项目. Students must notify the OTD Program Director as soon as possible if there is any change in their ability to meet these technical 站ards.