The Need for 'Soft Skills' in Occupational Therapy Curricula: A Descriptive Analysis of French Students' Internship Comments.
A competent occupational therapist needs soft skills. Although the French national occupational therapy (OT) curriculum lists 10 competences to be acquired, they do not include soft skills. The objectives of this study were to (a) Identify the proportion of soft skills in OT students' internship com...
| Publicado en: | Open Journal of Occupational Therapy (OJOT) Vol. 13; no. 4; pp. 1 - 14 |
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Open Journal of Occupational Therapy
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=189225754&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 189225754 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 21686408 HDL1 jtl: Open Journal of Occupational Therapy (OJOT) issn: 21686408 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Fall2025 vid: 13 iid: 4 pid: 94241 pub: Open Journal of Occupational Therapy place: Kalamazoo, Michigan artinfo: ui: 189225754 189225754 189225754 10.15453/2168-6408.2377 189225754 ppf: 1 ppct: 13 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P tig: atl: The Need for 'Soft Skills' in Occupational Therapy Curricula: A Descriptive Analysis of French Students' Internship Comments. aug: au: Engels, Cynthia Oubaya, Nadia Thomas, Aliki affil: Univ Paris Est Creteil - France sug: subj: Education, Occupational Therapy France Course Content France Social Skills France Internship and Residency Professional Competence Students, Occupational Therapy Human Descriptive Research France Multimethod Studies Descriptive Statistics Conceptual Framework Accountability Communication Student Attitudes Interprofessional Relations Chi Square Test Fisher's Exact Test Data Analysis Software Adult Adult: 19-44 years ab: A competent occupational therapist needs soft skills. Although the French national occupational therapy (OT) curriculum lists 10 competences to be acquired, they do not include soft skills. The objectives of this study were to (a) Identify the proportion of soft skills in OT students' internship comments written by internship tutors and (b) characterize the mentioned soft skills to help determine whether and which soft skills should be included in the new OT curriculum nationwide in France. This was a qualitative descriptive analysis of tutors' comments on internship evaluations based on the framework method. Of the 1060 internship reports, 1035 (98%) for 217 students mentioned at least one soft skill. Taking initiatives was the most frequently mentioned (65%), followed by accountability (62%) and adaptability (46%). Taking initiatives, communication, and organization were the most negatively mentioned (respectively in 36%, 18% and 17% of the comments). The 36% of negative comments about taking initiatives concerned 86% of the students. Although soft skills are not taught in the French OT curriculum, most internship reports mentioned them. If students were taught these soft skills during their OT education, they may be better able to improve them throughout their training. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: research Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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