Open AccessBuilding Better Together: Interprofessional reflections on educating students when designing assistive technology
Author(s) -
Claire Davies,
Elizabeth Delarosa,
Susanne Murphy,
Catherine Donnelly
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
proceedings of the ... ceea conference
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2371-5243
DOI - 10.24908/pceea.v0i0.12994
Subject(s) - occupational therapy , process (computing) , medical education , psychology , engineering , computer science , medicine , psychiatry , operating system
This paper presents the results of a student questionnaire after completion of the course “Building Better Together (BBT)”. BBT is an interdisciplinary project-based teaching and learning experience that facilitated a collaboration between the engineering and occupational therapy programs within Queen’s University. This project integrated different frameworks to develop competencies for students from both programs which included: an engineering design process, a clinical process framework used by occupational therapists, and an inter-professional framework. We share the responses from an inter-professional questionnaires that included feedback about discipline-specific learning objectives, resources utilized, weekly course format, and outcomes of this experience