USAHS Alumni Testimonials – Occupational Therapy Programs

USAHS Alumni Testimonials – Occupational Therapy Programs

[00:00:00] Chandler Honeycutt (Alumni): St. Augustine is going to prepare you to be a well-rounded clinician. You’ve got your simulation labs, you’ve got the ADL lab for occupational therapy. You’ve got your research groups. We’ve got the pro bono clinic. All of those things prepare you to be such a well-rounded clinician. I don’t know that other programs can give you that the way that we get it here.

[00:00:17] Teka Clark (Alumni): The instructors, the professors were super personable, even online through a computer screen. I got to do an in-person residency on the San Marcos campus in California, so I got to connect with other colleagues from all different, uh, parts of the US. So it was, it was a great experience.

[00:00:34] Chandler Honeycutt (Alumni): Our faculty here are really good about knowing that you’re going to join them in the OT world one day, so you’re going to be colleagues, peers, and coming back to St. Augustine, it’s funny because I see so many of my mentors that now I’m on the same level with, and, you know, we can talk about treating patients and different caseloads and things like that. So when you’re a student here, they know that in the future you’re going to be working together, and they do a really good job of preparing you for that.

[00:00:58] Katelyn Fell (Alumni): I graduated, again, in 2011, and I found a job right after taking my board exams. Something that I think makes the University of St. Augustine unique in our, in terms of our program and the students that we put out there into the, into the field, is the readiness for hands-on patient care from day one. And that’s been the case for many years now in terms of really being able to prepare students, not just from a didactic perspective, from the textbook, but actually to be able to apply those skills and, and put their hands on clients day one of their fieldwork experience.

[00:01:34] Teka Clark (Alumni): Completing that residency in California and getting to experience the technologies that they had there and collaborate with some other people from all over the US, it really did kind of broaden my understanding of the different technologies that this university uses to empower and equip young professionals to, um, be successful in the workplace.

[00:01:54] Chandler Honeycutt (Alumni): And I am so thankful that I came to St. Augustine because it has led me into the clinician that I am today.

[00:01:59] Teka Clark (Alumni): And once I finished my doctorate, I felt like I could take on the world because I had the skillset and I had the knowledge and I had the expertise that I wouldn’t have had if I didn’t do my degree here at the university.