European MSc in Occupational Therapy

What to expect

• Small class sizes
• Interaction with an internationally renowned faculty and like-minded professionals
• High quality education of five participating universities, some of which are ranked in the top of Europe
• An international focus on occupational therapy
• Occupational therapy and occupational science from a cross-cultural point of view
• The development of your analytical and clinical reasoning skills
• The opportunity to grow professionally and as a researcher
• The opportunity to visit several exciting European towns and cities
• New career perspectives both in your home country and abroad.

Course structure 

The programme starts in September 2017 and lasts 24 months. Hours of study per week will be approximately 28 and there will be six modules including a thesis.*

Each module consists of 280 study hours and has three phases at one of the participating universities.

Each phase consists of preparatory work in your own country (56 hours), class work in the country hosting the module (10 working days / 80 hours), and independent study in your own country (200 hours).

In your home country you work under supervision on your thesis. You support and review each other's work in action learning groups at a distance (840 hours).

During the first year you will have four modules, in each module you have two weeks of intensive classes and nine weeks for making assignments.

It is possible to take these first modules separately, in which case each module costs 2,000 Euros.

Each module combines theoretical topics within Occupational Therapy and Occupational Science with scientific method and theory.

Timetable 

[1] Submissions and resubmissions are always due on the Wednesday of the mentioned week.

Year 1 

Module 1: Exploration of Concepts of Occupation and Research

University of Brighton in Eastbourne

• Introduction to OT-EuroMaster: skills for post-graduate learning and competence based teaching and assessment
• Concepts of Occupation
• Epistemology
• Ontology (philosophy underpinning science)
• Ethics
• There will be a mix of preparatory work at home, contact hours in Eastbourne and assignments at home.  

Module 2: Qualitative research methods and human occupation, diversity, culture and participation

Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences

• Understanding and Applying Qualitative Methods
• Developing Skills in Qualitative Methods
• Dynamic Interaction of Human Occupation with Diversity, Culture and Participation
• There will be a mix of preparatory work at home, contact hours in Amsterdam and assignments at home. 

Module 3: Quantitative research methods in relation to evaluation and enhancement of occupational performance

Zurich University of Applied Sciences

• Understanding and Applying Quantitative Methods
• Developing Skills in Quantitative Methods
• Development of Assessment for Measuring Occupational Performance
• Implementation of Research
• There will be a mix of preparatory work at home, contact hours in Zurich and assignments at home. 

Module 4: Socio-cultural perspectives of human occupation

University College Zealand in Næstved

• Societal and Sociological Perspectives on Human Occupation, Population Health and OT-practice.
• Political, Economic, Healthcare and Cultural Conditions and the Relationship(s) to Human Occupation in different Social Situations and Cultural Settings 
• There will be a mix of preparatory work at home, contact hours in Naestved and assignments at home. 

Year 2 

Module 5: Planning a research project within the body of knowledge of the OT discipline

Karolinska Institutet

This modules will involve:

• Literature review as background study
• Methodological master classes connected to the research plans 
• Independent study at home
• Submission of a draft research plan, for final feedback by supervisor
• Submission of a research plan, for marking by examiners
• Examination of research plan by oral presentation and Master classes on research methods in Stockholm

Module 6: Conducting a research project within the Occupational Therapy discipline

This module will involve:

• Independent study at home
• Submission of thesis 
• Grading by thesis examiner
• Marking and feedback sent to you
• Your oral presentation of thesis and graduation 

Travel and accommodation 

Our European Master of Science in Occupational Therapy offers you the high quality education of five participating universities. It gives you the exciting opportunity to visit several European cities and to learn and travel. The organising universities provide advice and assistant in finding suitable accommodation.

During the first year you travel five times to attend classes in the country that delivers the module. Each trip will last two weeks. First you will visit Eastbourne, United Kingdom, then Næstved near Copenhagen in Denmark, followed by Amsterdam in the Netherlands.

The fourth module is in Winterthur, Switzerland, and finally in the fifth module you go for one week to the Swedish capital Stockholm. The presentation of the research findings will take place at an examination seminar held in one of these countries.

Course fees

What's included

You may have to pay additional costs during your studies. The cost of optional activities is not included in your tuition fee and you will need to meet this cost in addition to your fees. A summary of the costs that you may be expected to pay, and what is included in your fees, while studying a course in the School of Health Sciences are listed here.

• Where your course includes a placement, travel costs which are over and above your daily journey to university and dual accommodation costs may be reimbursed by the NHS learning support fund. Paramedic Science students and overseas students are not covered by the NHS scheme and travel costs for this course will be your responsibility. Find out more about the NHS learning support fund.
• Specialist clothing and uniforms, where required, are included in the course fees.
• DBS checks, where required, are included in the fees.
• Course books are available from the university but you may wish to budget up to £100 if buying your own copies.

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The fee is exclusive of travel and accommodation expenses and the costs of study material. The fee is payable annually and further tuition fees are payable for each subsequent year of study.

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