‘Mastering the Content’ takes you on a journey through the content housed on the BOT Portal for the purpose of application. Whether you are student or a practitioner, this first unit will walk you through available resources, clinical mindset when applying these resources and give your journal questions to explore as you move through this unit. You can share all of your responses, comments, questions, feedback in your closed community group on Facebook or your Marco Polo “Portal” community: 3-9 students/practitioners with whom to foster a professional network. To understand more about the comprehensive resources you will be accessing, you can become a free member to “look around”.

‘Collaborate Intraprofessionally’ is purposed to build what BOT believes is of paramount importance to succeeding in occupational therapy and improving quality of life as a practitioner whether you are a student or 25 years into the profession. Let’s face it, burnout is real! We must depend on each other for support, encouragement, and joint contribution to excellence. That’s what this unit will foster! You will have goals that encourage you to (1) Establish Community (2) Ask clinical and education-based questions (3) Answer others questions (4) Share personal experiences through guided prompts.

‘Communicate Clearly and Competently’ is a unit that will establish your ‘voice’ as a practitioner. Have you ever felt nervous to communicate your case? your questions? your treatment plan? your value? You are not alone! There are practitioners all over the world who desire to have a stronger voice in their practice. This is your chance! You will have much opportunity to accomplish these goals in a supported environment while learning how to be a stronger clinician. Some of these opportunities include closed facebook group, Portal groups on Marco Polo, a monthly zoom meeting, weekly Facebook LIVES, and more.

‘Practice Confidently’ will guide you through goals that will bring you to a place of confidence in all elements. of clinical practice. By completing the goals throughout this course, the student and/or practitioner will naturally find themselves in a place of leadership. During this stage you, you will be given opportunities to lead discussion, discuss the potential to mentor others, and work towards discussing how you can use all of the information you learned throughout the year to foster the same skills in others. Most of all, you will be confident in application and advocacy of your full occupational therapy scope of practice.