… Matching a Grandmother's Influence … Matching a Grandmother's Influence Roberta FitzGerald remembers how her grandmother, Anna McGillicuddy … for the toddler during World War II.  “I think that was the start of my desire to become a nurse,” says FitzGerald, who would go on to graduate in 1959 from … Matching a Grandmother's Influence Roberta FitzGerald remembers how her grandmother, Anna McGillicuddy Damon, thought so highly of nurses that she …

… PT Intervention for GVHD Tell us about your Innovation Project. This project seeks to equip OTs and PTs that treat clients with Graft-Versus-Host disease with … homecare sent me an email about the PP-OTD program at the MGH-IHP, sharing how wonderful the program was. I was excited to see that the classes would be in the … for a position as a fieldwork coordinator and anxiously await the hiring committee’s decision. I plan to continue to work toward a career in academia with scholarship …

… in 1CW on Tuesday.  “The Awards & Recognition Ceremony is a wonderful opportunity to truly celebrate each graduate in community with their families and friends,” said … what they have brought to the cohort and to the genetic counseling profession. It’s a time to recognize all of the hard work of the graduates and how proud we are to call them colleagues.                                Student …

… math. Five students and professor King Chung were chosen as one of the four teams to do on-site demonstrations of effects on hearing and other science projects … – earmuffs. The difference in volume demonstrated the importance of protecting one’s hearing from loud noises by wearing earplugs or earmuffs. The muffled sounds heard through the earmuffs also demonstrated how people with hearing loss struggle in their daily lives – they can hear people …

… Hobbs recently received the New England Occupational Therapy Education Council’s Irene Allard Award for Fieldwork Education for her role at the Sheppard Pratt … Health Care System in Baltimore, MD. The Irene Allard Award is presented annually to recognize fieldwork educators who demonstrate exceptional competence, creativity, … and confidence. The adolescent population is not an easy one. When you factor in how much trauma many of the residents have experienced in their short lives, the …

… for the Podcast Era It was the spring of 2020, and Eliza du Pont had returned home to Vermont to finish her second year in the Doctor of Occupational Therapy program. Due to a change in the program’s education schedule caused by the coronavirus pandemic, she discovered she could … like “Up First” and “Hidden Brain” on National Public Radio, her ears attuned to how they used music, introductions, formalities, and questioning formats. Using that, …

… Establishing learning objectives for your course is very helpful in enabling you to define what knowledge, skills, and attitudes you would like your students to walk … or disconnected from the activities students will undertake. If it is unclear how a particular learning objective is manifested in the course it should be … learning in the context of a task that can presumably be measured, i.e. a student’s actual identification of specific anatomical parts on a model or diagram. This …