Today we speak with Dr. Beth Hunter about her work with the Evidenced Based Practice Team at AOTA. Beth summarizes the basic principles of evidenced-based practice and shares how you can use systematic reviews, practice guidelines and additional resources to improve your knowledge and practice. 

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On today's episode we speak with current practitioner Julia Kuehn about her lived experience as a fieldwork student with AOTA's evidence based practice team. Fieldwork and life as a new practitioner can be stressful and overwhelming. Julia offers advice to help students select meaningful and successful fieldwork experiences, prepare for the NBCOT, transition to practice, and incorporate EBP in a fieldwork setting and as budding practitioners. 

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Dr. Cunningham and Dr. Uyeshiro discuss their work in the University of Southern California Multiple Sclerosis clinic and their contributions to an AOTA systematic review -- “Interventions within the scope of occupational therapy practice affecting instrumental activities of daily living (IADLS) for adults with Multiple Sclerosis.” They share personal knowledge gained from lived experiences working with clients who have MS, students learning to think like OT practitioners, and with the Lifestyle Re-design approach to treatment. 

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We speak with expert pediatric therapist and evidenced based champion Aimee Piller about generating, implementing, and promoting evidence in pediatric occupational therapy practice. She shares her experience as a practitioner, as a clinic owner, and as the chairperson of the sensory integration and processing special interest section at AOTA. 

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Because of the public health emergency, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services expanded access to telehealth services allowing patients to receive a wider range of services, including occupational therapy. But as the world continues to navigate the pandemic, practitioners across the nation are wondering what the future of telehealth looks like for them.   

Monica Wright, Manager, Coding and Payment Policy, shares what telehealth advocacy efforts AOTA has done on behalf of the profession. Also, Mary Jo McGuire, MS, OTR/L, OTPP, FAOTA, a community-based practitioner, and Lourdes Pinder, OTR/L, a school-based practitioner share how telehealth has impacted their day-to-day work. Learn more: https://www.aota.org/Practice/Manage/telehealth.aspx

Joy Doll leads us on a deep dive into the importance of Health Information Exchanges, Social Determinants of Health, and the role of OT in Primary Care and Telehealth 

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Dr. Caitlin Synovec and Julie Miller share their experience developing the "Application of the OTPF-4 to Support and Advance OT" short course and outline three case applications using the OTPF in person, group, and population interventions. 

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On today's episode we hear from Patty Laverdure, the program director of occupational therapy at Old Dominion University school of rehabilitation sciences and the Chairperson of the Special Interest Section Council (SISC) at AOTA. She shares her work and research in developing quality indicators for school-based practice, and details a systematic review on occupation and activity-based interventions to improve performance of activities of daily living, play and leisure for children and youth ages 5-21 which was published in the February issue of AJOT.

As the publishing arm of the AOTA, AOTA Press takes great pride in its publications. On the latest #AOTAPodcast episode, Amy Lynch, PhD, OTR/L, lead editor of the upcoming trauma book “Trauma, Occupation, and Participation: Foundations and Population Considerations in Occupational Therapy” shares why it’s critical for occupational therapy practitioners to fully understand how trauma affects the clients they serve. Visit store.aota.org for more information.

Today we introduce the final episode in our three-part Covid-19 case application series. We speak with Shelly Coleman Casto, the occupational therapy inpatient clinical lead and Jordan Walter an inpatient occupational therapist both at Nationwide Children’s hospital in Columbus Ohio. We discuss the importance of understanding how Covid-19 can impact children, how to approach implementing safe and specialized treatment for children with Covid-19, and outline a case application of the inpatient pediatric care process for children with Covid-19.  

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