Occupational Therapy Current Students
Useful Links
Here are some links that may be of use to you as you matriculate through the program.
- Book Lists (enter the course information to see the books you will need to purchase)
- Tuition and Fees (Click on the appropriate semester's link. Students are billed for 9 hours; look at the Graduate fees halfway down the page)
- Membership Requirements: Students are required to be Members of the American Occupational Therapy Association (opens in new window) and the Tennessee Occupational Therapy Association (opens in new window).
- Financial Aid (opens in new window)
- Program Costs
- Graduation Requirements (links to University Catalog)
Forms
- Background Check (opens in new window)
- UTC Certificate of Immunization
- Physical Examination and Health Documentation: College of Health, Education and Professional Studies forms located in the Medicat Patient Portal.
Vaccine Information
Recognized exemptions from immunizations include being enrolled in a program that is exclusively online or at an off-campus site, medical contraindications, and religious objections. If you are enrolled in online only courses with no experiential component, or in a dual enrollment program exclusively offered on the site of a local education authority or secondary school, you and your academic advisor must sign the Online Only Immunization Exemption Waiver. To determine how to apply for exemptions, please review UTC University Health Services website under "Exemptions." Note that students enrolled in any allied health professions program such as nursing, physical therapy, occupational therapy or athletic training may not have the same exceptions to immunization requirements under certain circumstances.
For the OTD Program, medical or religious exemptions may be granted only in accordance with a clinical site's policies and requirements. UTC does not have the authority to grant or authorize any religious or personal medical exemptions that would be applicable to off-campus clinical sites since they are independent of the University. To the extent a clinical site requests that UTC administer exemption requests for any of our students and/or faculty, UTC would only administer such requests in accordance with the requirements imposed by the clinical site and will not have any discretion to apply differing exemptions or criteria than those authorized by the clinical site. In short, the clinical site's exemption policies must be followed; UTC's policies have no applicability.
Students who choose not to meet the vaccine requirements of clinical sites will not be able to have integrated clinical experiences, fieldwork, or capstone at those sites. UTC does not assume responsibility and does not guarantee the ability to provide alternate experiences for students who choose not to be vaccinated (vaccination status is not a factor in fieldwork or capstone site assignment). Consequently, if students are unable to engage in required clinical experiences for the timeframe in which they are offered within the program, the Occupational Therapy Department may involuntarily withdraw them from their course(s), and/or cohort, and/or educational program due to being barred by the clinical sites. Any such action would be due to academic requirements; it would not be a disciplinary action.
Other Expenses: (costs vary depending on the provider)
- CPR / First Aid (annual)
- Health Exam (annual)
- Vaccination Review (annual)
- TB Test (annual)
- Personal Health Insurance (continuous throughout the program)
- Background Check (may be required multiple times due to individual fieldwork requirements)