The International Journal of Occupational Therapy Education (IJOTE) : a need for an international peer-reviewed forum to report our academic evidence base and share practice education innovations

Collins, B; Hills, C; Brown, T

Abstract

Introduction: The 2014 WFOT Congress included over 150 wide-ranging, highquality papers specifically about entry-level occupational therapy education, which
highlights a wealth of experience and diversity of approaches in curriculum design
and practice education provision. Conference proceedings indicate that there is
scholarship undertaken in occupational therapy education. However, outside the
conference context, there currently is no peer-reviewed publication dedicated to the
scholarship of occupational therapy learning and teaching (SoOTLT).
Objective: To identify current outlets for the reporting of occupational therapy
education research and scholarship and to propose the need for a refereed journal
dedicated to SoOTLT.
Method: A review of conference programmes and academic journals was performed
to identify outputs relating to occupational therapy education.
Results: The key finding is that there is currently no consistent, peer-reviewed and
professionally published outlet for occupational therapy education research. A
sizeable discrepancy was found between the number of conference abstracts about
occupational therapy education and the number of corresponding journal articles. A
review of mainstream higher education journals highlighted that many prefer
research about general issues related to curriculum and student experiences and a
number of other health disciplines already have one or more refereed journals
dedicated to education in that profession.
Conclusion: The lack of an outlet for publishing manuscripts on SoOTLT
demonstrates a clear need for an international journal that is professionally
published, informs and shares knowledge and innovations. The work undertaken by
the authors to date to establish such a journal will be reported.

Citation

Collins, B., Hills, C., & Brown, T. The International Journal of Occupational Therapy Education (IJOTE) : a need for an international peer-reviewed forum to report our academic evidence base and share practice education innovations. Presented at WFOT Congress 2018, Cape Town, South Africa

• Presentation Conference Type: Other
• Conference Name: WFOT Congress 2018
• Conference Location: Cape Town, South Africa
• End Date: May 25, 2018
• Publication Date: May 22, 2018
• Deposit Date: Jul 10, 2020
• Publisher URL: https://congress2018.wfot.org/
• Additional Information: Event Type : Conference