Delivering Rehabilitation Care Around the World: Voices From the Field.

Objectives: To identify the challenges and common issues that the rehabilitation health workforce experienced in delivering services in different practice settings across the world. These experiences could suggest approaches to improving rehabilitation care to people in need.

Design: A semi-structured interview protocol centering on 3 broad research questions was conducted to collect data.

Development of a hybrid distance occupational therapy program in Alaska.

There are shortages of health professionals in rural states. Correspondingly, health professions education programs often do not exist in these areas. Students from rural areas seeking health professions degrees frequently move out of state or to urban areas for education.

Fostering cultural competency, clinical reasoning, and leadership through international outreach.

ABSTRACT The Centennial Vision of the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA) has called for occupational therapy to be globally connected. Students can gain cultural competency, clinical reasoning, and leadership from attending didactic coursework and participating in discussions and clinical simulations. Immersing oneself in international settings, however, tends to have a greater impact on learning.