Resources for fieldwork education

Continue to develop your skills with our list of resources created to assist you in your fieldwork education.

How to incorporate evidence-based practice into fieldwork education

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Incorporating evidence-based practice (EBP) into fieldwork education is essential to help students understand the value of EBP and its application to clinical practice. Fieldwork students are required to demonstrate use of evidence during fieldwork and are evaluated on this criteria on the Fieldwork Performance Evaluation. It can be incorporated by:

  • Incorporating it into fieldwork objectives
  • Reading the Occupational Therapy Practice Guidelines
  • Reading special issues of the American Journal of Occupational Therapy
  • Reading critically appraised topics (CATs)
  • Collaborating with students to write a Critically Appraised Paper.
  • Janes, W. E., Cohill, B., Cook, A., Escher, A., Galey, S., Hanson, D. J., LeQuieu, E. D., Olson, D., Williams, K., & Zeigler, J. (2024). Mapping Review of Fieldwork Education Literature. Journal of Occupational Therapy Education, 8(1). https://doi.org/10.26681/jote.2024.080111