This course will prepare students to develop a professional development plan to achieve career aspirations as well as a proposal for the OTD Doctoral Project. Through a series of guided self-analysis assignments students will identify academic, personal and professional strengths and create career goals. Students will continue the planning for the doctoral experiential component during this course. All students are assigned an academic mentor from the BU OT Dept. core faculty who students will work with throughout this course. Students and academic mentors, with input from peer mentors will collaborate to identify a focused/realistic problem to address in the Doctoral Capstone. Students will review gaps or shortcomings in current occupational therapy practice and work with their assigned mentor to identify their focused area of interest. Students will identify necessary knowledge and skills to achieve their goals and begin to develop an initial plan for the OTD Doctoral Experiential Component. By the end of the semester, you will have an outline of the proposed problem and drafted learning objectives, which will need to be approved by your academic mentor. Assignments in this course will lead to the completion of Capstone Competency Tasks.

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