Occupational Therapy Students' Perspectives of Professionalism: An Exploratory Study.
Background: Professionalism is a dynamic, socially constructed idea, rendering it difficult to comprehend. Though characterized by the demonstration of values and behaviors, its meaning has not been fully explored and remains tacit. To explore how first- and second-year master's of occupational ther...
| Publicado en: | Open Journal of Occupational Therapy (OJOT) Vol. 3; no. 4; pp. 1 - 20 |
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Open Journal of Occupational Therapy
Fall2015
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