We Nurture Rehabilitation Experts to Realize the Future Welfare Society
The Department of Occupational Therapy provides students with knowledge on the professional occupational therapy needed for subjects in all life cycles to enjoy high quality and independent lives to the fullest extent possible. Occupational Therapy teaches students to access and analyze individuals, groups and institutions that have or are expected to have difficulties in performing their roles for physical (stroke, spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury, back pain, arthritis, rotator cuff tear, etc.), mental (dementia, autism, developmental disabilities, etc.), and social (socially disadvantaged, etc.) reasons through profiling, interviews, standardized evaluation tools, and work performance analysis. Over time, students learn to establish and implement customized intervention plans for each subject.
The SCH Occupational Therapy department aims to nurture professionals who take full responsibility and take on an active attitude under the SCH foundational spirit of love for humanity and who can judge and practice according to the desired value system of the community when values contradict.
Only those who are scheduled to graduate from the occupational therapy department and who have graduated may take the occupational therapist national license exam.
Only prospective graduates and graduates are eligible to take the Occupational Therapist National License Examination conducted by the Ministry of Health and Welfare. People with licenses acquired can work as professional occupational therapists. With the license, jobs are open at the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, the Department of Psychiatry and Occupational Therapy at university hospitals and general hospitals, rehabilitation hospitals, nursing hospitals, welfare centers for the disabled, senior welfare facilities, dementia centers, the Health Review and Assessment Service, the Health Insurance Corporation, the Industrial Safety Management Corporation, medical device companies, education and research institutes, special schools (public and private), etc. After obtaining a license in that country, students can work as professional occupational therapists overseas, such as in Canada and Australia.