Promoting Environments that Measure Outcomes: Partnerships for Change

Abstract

This paper describes the development of the PrEMO © (Promoting Environments that Measure Outcomes) program. PrEMO © is an innovative model promoting evidence-based practice (EBP) while developing capacity and quality of Level II fieldwork placements. The PrEMO © program is described from initiation to completion, including development of site-specific learning objectives, the twelve week schedule and the role of faculty mentorship. Occupational therapy (OT) students, and university OT program faculty including academic fieldwork coordinators, partner with fieldwork educators at the site to implement EBP using a datadriven decision making (DDDM) process to guide the development of evidence-based practices. PrEMO © appears to be a useful strategy for building Level II fieldwork capacity and enhancing student and fieldwork educators' knowledge and skills about EBP and outcome measurement in routine OT practice.

Outcomes of an Evidence-Based, Data Driven-Model Fieldwork Experience for Occupational Therapy Students

“…Activities using the DDDM process were completed weekly by the students and these were monitored by the occupational therapy department faculty via in person or virtual meetings. This process is described in more detail in a separate paper (Schaaf et al, 2017).…”

“…The program, termed PrEMO (Promoting Environments that Measure Outcomes) creates a partnership between fieldwork Level II sites and our university occupational therapy program to promote environments that measure occupational therapy outcomes. PrEMO is described in detail elsewhere (Schaaf et al, 2017). The focus of this paper is to describe the DDDM Process (Schaaf, 2015;Schaaf & Mailloux, 2015) used to train students and fieldwork educators (FWEs) in the use and implementation of EBP.…”