Careers in OT
Graduates of the Department of Occupational Therapy at MU have 100% job placement during or after graduation. They are employed as clinicians, administrators, academicians, and consultants.
Occupational therapists can work in a variety of settings, individually or in a team setting, including, but not limited to:
- Neonatal and pediatric intensive care units
- Adult intensive care units including specialized units for cardiac and pulmonary conditions and burns
- Orthopedic and neurological units of hospitals to address cognitive and perceptual skills, and activities of daily living for safe discharge to home
- Free-standing outpatient rehabilitation facilities to improve basic and instrumental activities of daily living, including specialized treatment and splinting for hand injuries
- Schools and early intervention programs, to address learning or behavioral disabilities that are barriers to learning.
- Home health to focus on activities of daily living in the home, also includes evaluation and redesign of home to remove barriers to independence
- Skilled nursing and long term care facilities to increase function for return to home
- Mental health facilities
- Community wellness programs focused on prevention
- Private practice
- Consultants to industry to reduce workplace injuries.