Occupational Therapy

We accept exchange students for clinical placement in English. The full-degree programme is taught in Danish.

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About the programme

The degree programme in Occupational Therapy covers education and research in enabling people to participate in activities of everyday life.

We provide our students with knowledge of occupational-therapy theories on the interaction between people, activities and environment. They will learn to use different assessment tools and acquire knowledge of physical and mental illnesses, pedagogy, psychology, sociology, anatomy and physiology, IT and communication as well as management.

We combine high academic skills with clinical experiences within the social and health care sector, applying academic learning to a “real life” context. Students will continuously learn in an iterative process combining theory and practice in a fruitful and contemporary way involving citizens, professionals and the surrounding society, nationally and internationally.

Communication and interaction between the client and the occupational therapist is one of the cornerstones in our profession. We aim to nourish the students’ development of these qualities and skills, targeting occupational therapy to people in all stages of life, in both mono- and inter-professional contexts.

The ethical basis of our degree programme refers to the ethical guidelines set out by the Association of Danish Occupational Therapy and the World Federation of Occupational Therapy.

Semesters open for clinical placements

We receive exchange students for the following semesters:

Spring semester
Autumn semester

Exchange students must have completed at least the first three semesters of their occupational therapy education before they can apply.

Who can apply for exchange?

We receive exchange students from the Erasmus+ and Nordplus programmes as well as from partner universities for short periods of clinical placement. Exchange students should expect to communicate in English. Danish can be used by those who understand and speak the language.

Where will the clinical placement take place?

The department has formal agreements with various relevant workplaces, and our students have the possibility to do clinical studies within the somatic area - both in hospitals, in rehabilitation units, and in the primary care. Also within the psychiatric area – both in hospitals and in primary care, the aid area as well as paediatric occupational therapy.

All of our clinical partners have clinical staff trained to handle the clinical education of occupational therapy students.

Networks

The Department of Occupational Therapy works in several networks on the international front, namely:

COHEHRE - learning organisation preoccupied with education and training of health and social care professionals across the European Union
ENOTHE - The European Network of Occupational Therapy in Higher Education
WFOT - World Federation for Occupational Therapy