Professional Development Opportunities: KC #8
Today I was challenged to think about the future, beyond my entry-level OT degree. Since I will be graduating with a master's degree in occupational therapy, I often get the question of whether or not I will continue my education for my doctorate. This is something I originally had planned on doing considering my love of learning and ambition to obtain more and more knowledge. However, after being in the program for these 2 years I have been so excited to graduate and begin practicing as soon as I am registered and licensed. Due to this readiness of wanting to gain clinical experience I decided that continuing my education directly after was not something I wanted to do. I am also the kind of person who never likes to say "never", so who knows, there could be the chance that I decide to get my backpack back out and be a student again. If I did decide to become an OTD it would be out of my love of knowledge and the excitement of possibly being able to spread that to OT st
