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CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT REPORT
The conference was attended by University Hospital
Southampton’s chief executive and it was opened by the head of
therapies.
The day itself was a huge success, and to evaluate the event we
devised a feedback form for delegates to complete; 89 per cent of
those that attended found the conference to be ‘extremely useful’.
The most beneficial elements of the day were: sharing best
practice (47 per cent); relevance to clinical practice (46 per cent);
clinical development (37 per cent); networking (35 per cent); product
demonstrations (13 per cent); and other aspects (four per cent).
Presentations that the delegates stated they particularly enjoyed
were those on the executive functioning pathway, social services, the
history of occupational therapy, paediatrics and burns and plastics
hand therapy.
Delegates also enjoyed trialling an upper limb virtual reality system
and it was also commented that the conference was reasonably
priced.
At times we were concerned that the variety of the programme inspirational talks about the profession’ and that they were ‘all excited
to qualify’.
Other attendees said that they ‘look forward to more events’,
and that they ‘really enjoyed the training and the variety of talks’, in
addition to being ‘keen to write a few reflections for my continuous
professional development folder’.
For us, the conference was unique and innovative as it embraced
the broad scope of our profession and enabled delegates to share
best practice and transfer this knowledge to their own setting.
We have learnt a lot as a team organising this event and built
greater channels of communication with other services. We would
be keen to organise further conferences in the future now the
foundations have been laid.
The event was a great opportunity to remind us what a
wonderfully diverse profession occupational therapy is and how we
all strive to continually develop our services for the best possible
outcome of our service users.
could have been seen as not specific enough for people’s own
clinical practice, however the delegates reported that the range of the
presentations gave them a greater understanding of other areas of
practice and made people proud to be occupational therapists and
of our diverse and innovative profession.
Delegates said they valued ‘celebrating the success of our
profession’ while students fed back that there had been ‘many Helen Jowett, advanced occupational therapist, Trauma and
Orthopaedics, University Hospital Southampton, email: helen.
[e-mail]; Amie Martin, advanced neuro occupational
therapist, Wessex Neurological Centre, University Hospital
Southampton, email: [e-mail]; and Rachel Orr,
advanced occupational therapist, Medicine, University Hospital
Southampton, email: [e-mail]
CALL FOR NOMINATIONS
ELIZABETH CASSON MEMORIAL LECTURE 2020
Purpose:
COUNCIL IS INVITING RCOT MEMBERS TO SEND NOMINATIONS FOR
THE PRESTIGIOUS ELIZABETH CASSON MEMORIAL LECTURE 2020.
This lectureship is a memorial to Elizabeth Casson (1881-1954) in honour of her contributions to the profession of occupational therapy.
The first woman to be awarded the degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of Bristol in 1929, she specialised in psychiatry
and introduced occupational therapy to England, setting up the first school of occupational therapy, Dorset House, in Bristol.
The lectureship is awarded to a member of the Royal College of Occupational Therapists (RCOT) who is considered by their
peers to have made and be making a significant contribution to the development of the profession. The name of the 2020
Elizabeth Casson Memorial lecturer will be announced at the 2019 RCOT Annual Conference.
Selection Criteria:
The nominee will have made a significant contribution to the profession by:
1. Being an inspirational professional within their area of practice, research, education or management.
2. Being an excellent communicator as evidenced by testimonial from peers, service users and carers.
3. Making or having made a significant contribution to the development of occupational therapy through professional practice, service improvement, service
delivery, research or education.
4. Having provided the opportunity for service users and carers, members of the profession and others to benefit from their work through clinical practice,
publications or presentations.
5. Being an active member of the Royal College of Occupational Therapists in good standing.
6. Having actively demonstrated use of advanced theory, standards and methods within occupational therapy that improve outcomes for service users and
carers and promote public awareness and understanding of the profession’s contribution.
Guidelines and nomination forms are available from https://www.rcot.co.uk/news-and-events/awards-and-
funding/dr-elizabeth-casson-memorial-lecture or Dominique Le Marchand, Senior Administrative Officer,
Royal College of Occupational Therapists, 106-114 Borough High Street, London SE1 1LB.
Tel: [phone]. Email: [e-mail].
Deadline for return of completed nomination form is Friday 29 March 2019. We will acknowledge receipt of your
nomination. We regret that we cannot enter into correspondence on the merits of a particular nomination.
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