This year, the celebration was held in the form of e-lectures “Occupational Therapy: Reimagine Doing”, which opened the autumn lecture course dedicated to the 90th anniversary of National University “Yuri Kondratyuk Poltava Polytechnic”.
Students and teachers of Poltava Regional Scientific Boarding Lyceum named after A. S. Makarenko of Poltava Oblast Council, and Poltava Gymnasium “Health” No. 14 participated in the online event.
The participants were greeted by Nataliia Beseda, PhD of Pedagogy, Associate Professor, Dean of Faculty of Sports, and Larysa Voloshko, PhD of Pedagogy, Associate Professor, Head of Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy Department.
The speaker of the event was PhD in Medicine, Assistant Professor of Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy Department Viktoriia Horoshko. She presented about the history and the principles of occupational therapy, this unique profession in general, the process and the fields of occupational therapy, emphasized the possibility of receiving the Bachelor’s degree in Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy at National University “Yuri Kondratyuk Poltava Polytechnic”.
The participants of the event asked the organizers to hold more informative events about this new profession. You can learn about how the World Occupational Therapy Day was celebrated online on the official website of the World Federation of Occupational Therapists.
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