EPISODE 4: The student perspective; a story of resilience - Jenna Hammond

As a 1st year occupational therapy student in 2020, who had not taken physics as a matric subject, Jenna Hammond tells Dr Paula Barnard-Ashton how she was advised by a student psychologist to drop out. She is now in 4th year, and in this episode she shares her and her class mates' coping strategies, the value of blended learning and how she was able to maintain her dual citizenship conditions by starting 4th year overseas without skipping a beat of her curriculum. Jenna also lets lecturers know what she thinks works best for blended learning with some great examples of how some lecturers do it! This year the Wits occupational therapy department celebrates their 80th anniversary with a symposium: "Occupational Therapy Education: Critical discourses on its past, present and future".