Prepping for the Practicum!!

December 11, 2013
by Kate

Classes

I just finished the last exam for our adult physical rehabilitation immersion course and my brain is officially mush. It was a 75-question multiple choice test covering the last 4 weeks of our semester. We also had a documentation practicum where we had to write a SOAP note (a type of progress note covering a treatment session). I studied a lot for this last exam and I’m hoping my hard work paid off. I have to remain clear-headed, however, because tomorrow at 8 am I have the practicum portion of the final!

The practicum is a portion of our exam where the students must prepare for a simulated treatment session and role-play an intervention with another student. We are given four case studies to choose from, and we select one case upon which to write a long-term and short-term goal and a treatment session plan. The students meet tomorrow at different times, are paired up with a random student, and perform the treatment session in front of a faculty member.

A bunch of the students got together right after our exam this morning to practice going over the practicum. We exchanged ideas and shared creativity in designing our treatment sessions. It is pretty stressful to prepare something like this and role play in front of a professor who teaches us for a living, but it’s still nice to know we are all in the same boat.

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