{"id":7168,"date":"2016-11-15T10:46:53","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T15:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/52.229.122.34\/en\/?page_id=7168"},"modified":"2024-04-22T09:01:08","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T13:01:08","slug":"become-an-occupational-therapist","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/our-model-of-care\/our-health-care-professional-team\/occupational-therapy\/become-an-occupational-therapist\/","title":{"rendered":"Become An Occupational Therapist"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/groupGeneral.jpg\" alt=\"Group General Campus\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Occupational Therapists in Canada are university graduates, and have completed a minimum of 1000 hours of supervised fieldwork experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are thirteen universities that offer Occupational Therapy programs (Master&#8217;s Degree), across Canada. A professional Master&#8217;s degree is the minimum entry requirement for this profession.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Occupational Therapists are regulated health-care professionals in all provinces of Canada. Each province has a council that is responsible for the regulation of Occupational Therapy practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Ontario, all practicing Occupational Therapists must successfully complete the <a title=\"Canadian Association of Occupational Therapists (CAOT)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.caot.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Canadian Association of Occupational Therapists (CAOT)<\/a> Certification Exam and be a member of the <a title=\"College of Occupational Therapists of Ontario (COTO)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.coto.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">College of Occupational Therapists of Ontario (COTO)<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For information about a career in Occupational Therapy at The Ottawa Hospital, please contact:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sandra MacLeod<br>Professional Practice Manager, Rehabilitation Services<br>The Ottawa Hospital \u2013 General Campus<br>501 Smyth Road &#8211; Room M-1260, Box 305<br>Ottawa ON K1H 8L6<br>Tel: 613-737-8007<br>Fax: 613-739-6670<br>Email: <a href=\"mailto:samacleod@toh.ca\">samacleod@toh.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Occupational Therapists in Canada are university graduates, and have completed a minimum of 1000 hours of supervised fieldwork experience. There are thirteen universities that offer Occupational Therapy programs (Master&#8217;s Degree), across Canada. A professional Master&#8217;s degree is the minimum entry requirement for this profession. Occupational Therapists are regulated health-care professionals in all provinces of Canada. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"parent":7132,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_mc_calendar":[],"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7168","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7168\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}