James Cook University Bachelor of Occupational Therapy (OT) Overview

Occupational therapy is a client centred health profession concerned with promoting health and wellbeing through occupation. Occupational therapists work with people and communities to enable people to engage in the occupations as they want to, need to, or are expected to do, or by modifying the occupation of the environment to better support their occupational engagement.

James Cook University’s Bachelor of Occupational Therapy  program in Australia will prepare students to work across locations within the tropics including rural and remote communities, which face unique challenges due to inequities in health and other services.

Students within the Occupational Therapy program at James Cook University (JCU) will gain distinctive experience working with Indigenous and remote communities that students won’t find anywhere else.

James Cook University’s Bachelor of Occupational Therapy gives you work-ready knowledge and skills in:

• assessment and enabling human occupation
• applying professional theory, practice and management
• health promotion and primary health care
• industry research and evaluation
• social and cultural impacts of functional impairment
• community developments to promote health and wellbeing
• biological and behavioural sciences

Clinical Work Experience

The Occupational Therapy (OT) program at James Cook University in Australia includes prescribed professional and clinical placements.  Students may be required to undertake such placements away from the James Cook University campus at which they are enrolled, at their own expense.

• practical urban and rural work experience
• clinical experience at James Cook University on-campus occupational therapy clinic
• international exchange Occupational Therapy opportunities

What Attracts Canadians to James Cook University in Australia

• International Recognition
• Practical Focus
• Supportive Study Environment
• Teaching Excellence
• Innovative Research

Entry Requirements

Completed high School diploma carrying 65%.

Prerequisites: English; plus one of Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Physical Education or Health Education.

Professional Recognition

The World Federation of Occupational Therapists accredits the Bachelor of Occupational Therapy program at James cook University.

Bachelor of Occupational Therapy graduates from James Cook University are eligible to register for practice in Australia as occupational therapists through the Occupational Therapists Board of the Australia Health Professional Registration Board (AHPRA), and are eligible to become members of OT Australia – The Australian Association of Occupational Therapists.

Australian trained occupational therapists can work overseas and James Cook University graduates are highly regarded. Countries occupational therapists can work in include Canada, New Zealand, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States of America and many more

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Professor Louis Schofield, Director of the Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine (AITHM) at (JCU) in North Queensland has received a $2.8M grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, to pursue the pre-clinical development of a vaccine aimed at the goal of malaria eradication.

The research will be conducted in collaboration with researchers from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne, and other colleagues and institutions in the USA. …

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The Times Higher Education (THE) has released its 150 Under 50 Rankings for 2016. It ranks the top 150 universities under 50 years old, and places JCU at 38th place.

’s achievements and potential have been recognised, with a respected global rankings organisation placing JCU in the top 50 universities under 50 years old.

’s Vice Chancellor, Professor Sandra Harding said JCU’s inclusion is very pleasing.

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Named after the British explorer Captain James Cook, is Australia’s leading tropical research university and Queensland’s second oldest university offering excellence in teaching and research. Our main campuses are based in the vibrant coastal northern Queensland cities of Townsville and Cairns, …

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Ali talks about the advantages of studying dentistry in Australia for Canadian students and what it’s like to study at JCU in Cairns.

 

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James Cook Dental School is still accepting applications for the February 2015 intake.  The  deadline for James Cook Medical  School and James Cook Dental School is August 29th.   …