Occupational Therapist
- Exam
- Third-party exam
- Education
- Degree
- Experience
- Experience
- Background check
- Not reported
"Practice of occupational therapy" means the therapeutic use of occupations for habilitation and rehabilitation to enhance physical health, mental health, and cognitive functioning and includes the evaluation, analysis, assessment, and delivery of education and training in basic and instrumental activities of daily living; the design, fabrication, and application of orthoses (splints); the design, selection, and use of adaptive equipment and assistive technologies; therapeutic activities to enhance functional performance; vocational evaluation and training; and consultation concerning the adaptation of physical, sensory, and social environments.
Requirements reported by the state
- Licence type
- Stand-alone license
- Exam
- Third-party exam required
- Education
- Degree required
- Continuing education
- Continuing education required
- Certification
- No mention of certification
- Experience
- Experience
Issuing body
- Department
- Department of Health Professions
- Board
- Virginia Board of Medicine
- Address
- 9960 Mayland Drive Suite 300 Richmond, VA 23233
- Phone
- (804) 368-4600
- Agency website
- https://www.dhp.virginia.gov/Boards/Medicine/
- Last updated
- August 11, 2023
Occupations (O*NET)
- Occupational Therapist 29-1122.00
- Occupational Therapist 29-1122.01
Source and verification
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