Dottorato in Terapia Occupazionale (OTD)

Occupational therapists serve patients of all ages in a variety of settings. Our students' complete graduate-level coursework and 6 months of full-time clinical fieldwork. During clinical rotations, students visit rehabilitation facilities, long-term care facilities, sheltered workshops, homes, community agencies, and industrial sites. During this time students have the opportunity to experience patient settings they might enter upon graduation and licensure.

We serve patients in San Antonio and South Texas. Our health care professionals serve in more than 100 affiliated hospitals, clinics, and health care facilities across San Antonio, Laredo, and the Rio Grande Valley. More than 3,000 students, researchers, and post-doctoral students from around the world come to UT Health San Antonio to study, research, and discover new breakthroughs.

UT Health is a dynamic and rapidly expanding health science center with five professional schools (medicine, nursing, dentistry, health professions, and graduate school of biomedical sciences) with missions of education, clinical care, research, and community service. With a budget of nearly one billion dollars, a workforce of 7,100, and a research portfolio of approximately $300 million, UT Health is quickly rising in prominence among academic medical centers in the United States.