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Occupational Therapy Course Overview

[Music] foreign College of occupational therapy coimbatore today we are going to have a discussion about our profession called occupational therapy it is Bachelor of Occupational Therapy course which has been Affiliated to the Tamil Nadu Dr MJR Medical University and it has been provided for four and a half years four years of theory and six months of internship courses what we are going to study in this course is majorly about the healthcare profession which is General Anatomy physiology basic OT in the first year second year we will be having about health medicine or health psychology forensic psychology and general medicine and also about fundamentals of Occupational Therapy in the second year third year we are going to study about clinical Ortho clinical neuro otn Orthopedics and neurology and Community medicine in the fourth year we are going to have OT in Pediatrics otn cardio and work simplified education techniques and also about the organization and administration skills and we will be having Indian up with the project and six months of internship will be considering about more than thousand hundred and ninety hours of clinical hours through internship in all the other topics like in Pediatrics Orthopedics neurology and cardio respiratory conditions we are going to be placed in the hospitals and in nearby hospitals we are going to be attached for studying this courses so once we complete this courses what we are going to get is the lot of opportunities and the awareness about occupational therapy is coming up by having a national commission for Allied Health professional Bill been passed in March 2021 and it has been enacted and going to be implemented in the year 2023 and this will enable them to work in any primary care hospitals and in schools and in special schools and in the disability sectors as a professionals they are going to be minding about this particular disability profession and most importantly occupational therapy is being popularized for dealing with conditions like autism ADHD learning disability and specific uh sensory processing disorders children because this comes under the neurodiversity people which they have been populating more and we are identifying the children in the school and we are going to enact and deal with them and the Need For Occupational Therapy is been getting higher and higher the colleges are getting more impacted of starting this courses now we have been having nearly 25 colleges been enacted in Tamil Nadu to deal or to meet these demands in particular profession and also for meeting these conditions nowadays this course has been recognized in World Federation of occupational therapy as well as we have an association called Association of Occupational Association of Indian occupational therapy and this course has been regulated by them for getting them a foreign country opportunities and also an Indian and abroad so these courses are having a lot of scope like once they get completed this course at the undergraduate level itself they are going to get the salary more than uh 30 000 so that has been the initial salary been set up in the India as a fresh graduate even though priorly it was been less now it has been improvised a lot because of the awareness and the need and the demand been enacted so these courses please been addressed about this professional courses and do join and enable your professional skills thank you