Occupational Therapy

Carolyn Unsworth’s visit to Singapore for Health Manpower Development Programme (HMDP) is very beneficial. I have attended about 4 lectures and 2 workshops so far since Monday. Some of her lectures are pretty much of a revision for me. For example, clinical reasoning, psychometric propeties of cognitive and perceptual assessment tools, and driving rehabilitation. These [...]

19.01.2008
It was a day to mark the end of our Final Year Project journey. Well, maybe except for the report that is due next week. The Best Paper prize was the Falls group whose paper focused on the adapting the Australian Falls Prevention Programme into local context. For theirs, it has been piloted in a nursing home whereby [...]

Week 1 of clinical placement had just passed by. That was fast, right?
Reflections on the First Week
I thought I have lost interest in neurology eversince the 4-week incident in 2006. I thought I was kind of doomed when I received the news that I will be posted to Neurosurgery. But all these thoughts vanished when a [...]

First day of clinicals was interesting with a variety of medical conditions. Haemorrhages, head injuries, cardiac conditions etc. The aim of this clinical placement was to synthesise theories learnt so as to really get the big picture of Occupational Therapy. And of course, appreciate it.
I managed to help out in treatment interventions as well as doing parts [...]

12 Jan 2008
A dinner which gathered occupational therapists and students alike. It’s the company that I was in that makes the night truly enjoyable. We arrived a little late due to the rain. Upon registering, we made our way to the table reserved for students, in which we started cam-whoring almost immediately after that.
Programme started [...]