Doctor of Occupational Therapy
A post-baccalaureate entry to the Doctor of Occupational Therapy (DrOT) is a doctorate degree that prepares you to become a successful OT practitioner, researcher or leader in a variety of medical and community settings. It’s the highest level of formal education available to entry-level occupational therapists. By earning your occupational therapy degree from Saint Joseph’s University, you’ll gain the knowledge and skills to make a meaningful impact on patient care.
Saint Joseph’s accredited three-year post-baccalaureate entry to the DrOT program offers the opportunity to work with patients of all ages in the Greater Philadelphia area and neighboring states every semester starting in your first semester through fieldwork experiences and a doctoral capstone project. You’ll also get to publish research and collaborate with noted professors on grant-funded projects and network with students and alumni in student organizations like the Student Occupational Therapy Association.
Goal 1: Graduates of the DrOT Program will be informed practitioners in current healthcare systems.
Outcome 1.1: Graduates will use advocacy and leadership principles and practices to advance the profession of occupational therapy.
Outcome 1.2: Graduates will be able to describe and integrate relevant occupational therapy historical concepts to inform current clinical practice.
Goal 2: Graduates of the DrOT Program will have the foundational knowledge of human systems, environmental contexts, and systems integration to establish good clinical reasoning and therapeutic practice for those they serve.
Outcome 2.1: Graduates will develop literacy in the language of health professions and be facile users of the Occupational Therapy Practice Framework.
Outcome 2.2: Graduates be able to evaluate diverse individuals, groups, and populations for the provision of client-centered and evidence-based practice.
Outcome 2.3: Graduates will know and understand the application of therapeutic intervention for the practice of occupational therapy.
Goal 3: Graduates of the DrOT Program will follow and promote ethical conduct reflecting Jesuit values, specifically the values of honesty, respect for persons, and justice.
Outcome 3.1: Graduates will be able to know, understand, and apply to client care and professional practice the moral and ethical principles outlined in the Occupational Therapy Code of Ethics.
Outcome 3.2: Graduates will be able to learn, grow, and develop their roles as a leaders, competent professionals, and service providers through opportunities present in the DrOT Program.
Goal 4: Graduates of the DrOT Program will be innovators and leaders within the field of occupational therapy
Outcome 4.1: Graduates will develop competency in the dissemination of scholarship for continued contribution toward evidence-based occupational therapy practice and professional longevity.
Code | Title | Hours |
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OTH 405 | Overview of O.T. Practice | 2 |
OTH 500 | Level I Experiences Sem | 1 |
OTH 502 | Human Development & Perform | 3 |
OTH 502L | Human Dev & Perform Lab | 0 |
OTH 508 | Movement Analysis | 3 |
OTH 508L | Movement Analysis Lab | 0 |
OTH 510 | Neuroscience | 4 |
OTH 510L | Neuroscience Lab | 0 |
OTH 519 | Intro to Clinical Skills | 3 |
OTH 519L | Intro to Clinical Skills Lab | 0 |
OTH 531 | Clinical Medicine | 3 |
OTH 551 | Human Occ: Cncpts & Prctice | 3 |
OTH 551L | Human Occ: Cncpts & Prctce Lab | 0 |
OTH 555 | Evaluation & Assessment: OT | 3 |
OTH 555L | Evaluation & Assessment: OTLab | 0 |
OTH 562 | Theories of OT | 3 |
OTH 590 | Fieldwork Level I:Clinical Exp | 1 |
OTH 501 | Doctoral Seminar I | 1 |
OTH 602 | Doctoral Seminar II | 1 |
OTH 615 | Therapeutic Groups | 3 |
OTH 615L | Therapeutic Groups Lab | 0 |
OTH 620 | Fieldwork Level I: Clinical | 1 |
OTH 623 | FWK1:Comm Service Learning | 1 |
OTH 624 | Interventions I: Contextual Ap | 4 |
OTH 624L | Interventions I: Cntxtl Ap Lab | 0 |
OTH 634 | Interventions II: Developmenta | 4 |
OTH 634L | Interventions II: Develop Lab | 0 |
OTH 636 | Clin Ldrshp, Mgmt,&Supervision | 3 |
OTH 644 | Interventions III: Psychosocia | 4 |
OTH 644L | Interventions III: Psychosoc L | 0 |
OTH 650 | Applied Research Methods | 3 |
OTH 652 | OT Interventions IV: Cognitive | 3 |
OTH 652L | OT Interventions IV: Cogni Lab | 0 |
OTH 660 | Applied Research II | 3 |
OTH 664 | Interventions V: Rehab Approac | 4 |
OTH 664L | Interventions V: Rehab App Lab | 0 |
OTH 665 | Applied Research III | 3 |
OTH 668 | Evidence-Based Practice | 3 |
OTH 672 | OT Interventions VI:Technology | 3 |
OTH 672L | OT Interventions V: Tech Lab | 0 |
OTH 675 | Research Independent Study | 6 |
OTH 681 | OT: Past, Present, & Future | 2 |
OTH 682 | Fieldwork I: Community Client | 1 |
OTH 687 | FW 1f: Program Development | 2 |
OTH 699 | Special Topics in OT (or other offered electives, semester dependent) | 3 |
OTH 694 | Fieldwork Level IIa | 9 |
OTH 697 | Doctoral Experience Component | 12 |
OTH 698 | Fieldwork Level IIb | 9 |
OTH 703 | Doctoral Seminar III | 1 |
OTH 711 | Doctoral Capstone Project | 3 |
Total Hours | 121 |