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New project aims to increase trust for future autism research ⟩
April 2, 2021
Autism Awards Community and Partners Diversity, Access, Equity Faculty Health and Wellness Research
Two-year project will build formal alliances that accentuate perspectives of autistic people, their family members and caregivers, service providers and researchers.
By Mike McNulty For too long, too few autistic people have had a say in how autism research is designed, developed and disseminated, and researchers have not tapped into the expertise that only autistic people and their families have. A new USC-coordinated project looks to upend that disparity by…
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2nd China Initiative Academic Workshop: Academic Integrity and APA Citations ⟩
March 6, 2021
Academics and Courses China Initiative Community and Partners International
The USC Chan China Initiative team leads a 2nd workshop focused on the importance of academic integrity and necessity of citations in academic writing in order to support the PKUHSC students.
As part of ongoing efforts to support the PKUHSC master’s students academically, the China Initiative OTD residents led a 2nd workshop discussing the importance of academic integrity and the use of APA formatting/citations in academic papers and presentations. This topic was selected in response…
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Start of Level II Fieldwork for the 1st Cohort of PKUHSC Students ⟩
January 18, 2021
Academics and Courses China Initiative Community and Partners International
The inaugural cohort begins their first 8-week Level II fieldwork rotation to prepare them for entry-level competence as future OT practitioners.
The start of the new year signaled another “first” for the inaugural cohort of master’s occupational therapy students at the Peking University Health Science Center (PKUHSC). Having finished their master’s level academic coursework last semester, the inaugural cohort officially started their…
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PKUHSC Students Present at CARM Annual Conference ⟩
November 29, 2020
Academics and Courses China Initiative Community and Partners International
The 1st cohort of students in the USC-PKUHSC dual-degree program present at the 4th Comprehensive Academic Annual Conference of the Chinese Association of Rehabilitation Medicine (CARM) on their experiences as OT students in the master’s program at PKUHSC.
The USC-Peking University Health Science Center (PKUHSC) dual-degree program officially welcomed its first cohort in September 2019. This graduate program is one of the first specializing in occupational therapy in China, as most rehabilitation therapy or occupational therapy practitioners in China…
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Launch of the USC-PKUHSC Peer Exchange ⟩
October 17, 2020
China Initiative Community and Partners Global Initiatives International
23 students from both USC and PKUHSC engaged in the three virtual Peer Exchange events this fall to learn about occupational therapy in cross-cultural settings.
As the China Initiative partnership between the University of Southern California (USC) and the Peking University Health Science Center (PKUHSC) continues to grow, so too have efforts to expand the connection between the two occupational therapy (OT) programs. With monthly events that virtually…
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Inaugural China Initiative Academic Workshop: Critical Reading in Graduate School ⟩
September 25, 2020
Academics and Courses China Initiative Community and Partners International
The China Initiative OTD residents hosted a series of virtual workshops with the first one centered on critical reading in graduate school for the first-year PKUHSC students.
With the beginning of a new academic year, the China Initiative OTD residents began a new project to provide academic support to the master’s students enrolled in the occupational therapy-focused master’s program at Peking University Health Science Center (PKUHSC). The inaugural workshop focuses…
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PKUHSC Program Returns to In-Person Teaching ⟩
September 14, 2020
China Initiative Community and Partners International Pandemic
More than six months after transitioning to virtual instruction, Peking University Health Science Center (PKUHSC) dual-degree students returned to in-person classes and restored normal campus life in Beijing.
After 7 months of online teaching that began after the Lunar New Year national holidays in February 2020, PKUHSC instructors and students finally returned to in-person classes, as the COVID-19 pandemic subsided in China. Cohort 1 continued their typical second-year coursework, including an in-person…
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Chan Community Commission meets the moment ⟩
August 19, 2020
Community and Partners Diversity, Access, Equity Events Faculty Global Initiatives Pandemic Students
How student-leaders, faculty and staff kept the division connected during USC’s first fully remote semester.
By Kayla Johari MA ’21 and Calvin Lee MA ’21 During the Summer 2020 semester — the first full academic semester spent away from campus due to the Covid-19 pandemic — the Chan Community Commission (CCC) was assembled to support the incoming Class of 2022. The commission joined USC Chan…
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China Initiative PhD Student Co-Teaches Occupational Science Seminar in the Master’s Program at PKUHSC ⟩
July 28, 2020
Academics and Courses China Initiative Community and Partners International Students
Buwen Yao, a China Initiative scholar and current 3rd year PhD student at USC Chan, joins a PKUHSC instructor in co-teaching the Occupational Science Seminar course in the master’s program.
Buwen Yao Buwen Yao, at the time a medical student in rehabilitation medicine at Peking University Health Science Center (PKUHSC), was selected as a China Initiative scholar in 2018 to complete a PhD in occupational science (OS) at USC Chan. She will be amongst the first, if not the first person…
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Making a difference: Occupational therapy fellowships impact homeless healthcare in Los Angeles ⟩
May 20, 2020
Chan in the Media Clinical Community and Partners Health and Wellness
By Matthew Lee / USC Homelessness Initiative Julian Prado works at the JWCH Center for Community Health, located in the heart of Los Angeles’ Skid Row. The community clinic is a specially designated Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) to serve individuals experiencing homelessness, providing…
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