Fieldwork & Clinical Partners
Student occupational therapists must graduate with at least 1000 hours of clinical learning at approved fieldwork sites. Fieldwork placements provided by the clinical community enable students to integrate theoretical and practice knowledge and to develop professional behaviours.
This section of the website provides students and our clinical partners with information and resources to support clinical learning experiences. Our department greatly values the partnership between students and the clinical community.
If you have any suggestions to improve the resources available to you through these pages, please contact ot.clined@utoronto.ca.
For Students
Fieldwork education is an exciting opportunity to consolidate academic learning with clinical learning and develop professional behaviours and competencies. It gives students an understanding of the nature of occupational therapy practice in various settings. Throughout the fieldwork experience, students will have a broad range of learning opportunities, working with clients across the lifespan and the health care continuum in many mental and physical health areas.
For Clinical Partners
Fieldwork placements provided by our clinical partners provide students with the opportunity to integrate theoretical and practical knowledge and to develop professional behaviours and skills. We thank the facilities, the fieldwork coordinators, and the preceptors who work with the University to provide these essential and exciting clinical learning opportunities for our students.
Note: Regarding Students from Other Universities
If you get a call or email from a student from another university requesting a placement at your facility, you should direct them back to their university to speak with their Fieldwork Coordinator. National and international out-of-catchment placements must be arranged through the Fieldwork Coordinator at the students’ university. OT students have been instructed by all Canadian university Fieldwork Coordinators that they are not to contact facilities directly to arrange their own placements. Please review the CAOT’s Fieldwork opportunities for occupational therapy students studying outside Canada to learn more about the process.