From the first class on, we started developing the necessary attitudes, knowledge, and skills to turn us into competent practitioners. Along the way there were moments for each of us when we thought we'd never succeed. During this past semester, it has become obvious that each of us has grown in a myriad of ways both personally and professionally during our time together. And tonight, we have achieved our long-term goals and are about to be discharged into the world as registered occupational therapists. As future OTs we learned about the history of those who first began this field and how they viewed the value of occupations in daily life.
Occupations fit together to build a framework for life.
One of the things that makes OTs unique is our ability to analyze tasks and adapt environments to enable successful performance. And so we analyzed each task and determined what we needed to do. We employed creativity in our solutions such as devising acronyms to remember the muscles supplied by brachial plexus. Our individual environments were adapted to facilitate our ability to get to exams on time and pass them and to attend our group meetings to ensure we completed our projects by the deadline. All of us have had the opportunity to act as change agents in different areas of our lives as we've progressed through this program.