The Young Program

1. So far there are already four (or five) institutions run Occupational Therapy Program in Malaysia. The programs are ranging from one to twenty five years old and they are continued to emerge in many other new institution. Some institutions are happy to run its program to feed the local need, while some are interested to go global.

2. The interesting part about ‘go global’, it will create many opportunities for the graduate to work all over the world and for the institution to gain an extra milestone. Whether it is for the graduate or for the institution, works need to be done. It is not easy to get world recognition. Program need to be established, standard must be adhered, excellent paper need to be submitted.

3. I don’t know how people think? Some people believe in ‘know-who’ enough to get thing done but the other believe in ‘fundamental’. You will see people will allocate budget to travel and meet people but to hire consultant to assist in preparing paper is not a priority or not in the agenda at all. Like it or not there are people who can talk and get thing done or escape from doing. At the end of the day, someone need to shoulder the blame!

4. Some people like to discuss and seek assistance from ‘strangers’ to get work done. I do not know for what reasons. Do the local peers are not competent to do work? Or local people cannot keep their mouth shut when they see something funny.

5. Some people like to do reminiscence to nostalgia the success story in the past to balance the setbacks that they encounter in the present. It helps in some areas but not in many.

Putting The Young Brain Together

Seperti yang tuan puan maklum TT Communities akan kita lancarkan pada 25 May 2007 ini. Ia akan mengumpulkan para-para cream OT yang bertindak sebagai Think Tank kepada profession. Saya ingin menjemput tuan puan untuk menyertainya kerana saya percaya golongan akademik perlu meneraju usaha seperti ini.

Seperti yang saya maklumkan dalam email ke OT Malaysia YG, TTC ini bakal menjadi peneraju ke arah melahirkan modal insan yang kompeten untuk profession. Ia akan membincangkan isu-isu secara ilmiah dan bijaksana demi untuk menjana idea-idea baru bagi kemajuan profession. Memang di akui cabarannya adalah hebat tetapi kejayaannya juga akan membawa profesion ini kepada satu tahap yang lebih tinggi.

Saya ingin memulakan perbincangan sewaktu pelancaran nanti dengan topik di bawah... ( supaya kita boleh bersedi dan terus memberi pandangan demi pandangan)

What are the critical education issues in the OT training in Malaysia? Include foundational knowledge, OT specific knowledge, and practice skills.

Topik ini amat sesuai untuk di jadikan permulaan perbincangan kerana rata-rata peratusan graduan-graduan yang keluarkan dari institusi latihan OT yang kompeten untuk menghadapi tugas dan tanggungjawab mereka sebagai Occupational Therapist telah menurun secara mendadak!. Ketidakkompetenan kini menjadi semangkin menyerlah dan menular di dalam profession sehingga ada individu-individu yang tidak kompeten ini terus kekal dalam profession dan menjadi sebahagian dari profession.

Ini sangat memberi impak kepada perkembangan profession kerana ia akan menyumbang kepada kitaran penghasilan profesion. Saya sangat berharap pelancaran TT Communities ini dapat dimulakan dengan topik di atas. Topik demi topik akan kita perkenalkan dari masa kesemasa yang berkait dengan program yang kita ada.

Emailkan kepada saya sebgai tanda persetujuan at hanafiah2u@gmail.com

The Young Community

Due to the complex nature of occupational therapy, we can always argue that we are all engage in OT activities in one way or another. But the real issue in my opinion is not so much whether we are practicing OT or not, but rather how good we are at it.

The same can be said about communities of practice. Communities of practice are everywhere. They are in school and universities, in work and at home, in hospital and so on. Again the issue is not whether we belong to CoP or not, but on whether we are aware of their importance and the benefits they bring to the organisation.

CoP are about people. They normally develop around thing that matter to them. It is the realization of the importance of what they are doing that distinguishes one community from the others. In the case of the BEST CoP,it is a CoP for MOTA. We hope, it will translate into an organisational asset that can help shape the future of the profession as a whole. It belongs to all members. We request for crediantial mainly for organisational purposes. Best CoP is designed with differences. We already have huge portal to discuss openly around most subjects to cater for the current requirements.

Best CoP is going to be knowledge based driven activities. We improve and deepen our knowledge and expertise in OT by interacting on an ongoing basis.CoP is the best way to share knowledge and allowed the better transfer of tacit knowlwdge.

We have many experts within our community. Many types, latent experts, up and coming experts, expert syndrome and many more. What benefit that profession gain by having these people around ? Not very much I reckon if they are all venture individually. If we continue this trend the profession will suffer. We will be passing the struggle from generation to generation. This is what happening now. There is no different of struggle made by previous people compare to what we are facing now. I perceive the struggle will continue and continue till no end. CoP, the return what we invest is not immediate. It creates value for its individual members in many ways.....

I do hope more OTs coming forward to support. Let's do brilliant rock-busting. Start to re program our nervous system, reprogramming the way we think by changing our choice of words. We will get immediate noticeable different result.

Let's do while still have time.

The Young Workplace

Workplace Rehabilitation Seminar 3 & 4 Disember 2005.

KSKB dan MOTA telah menghantar surat pemberitahuan secara berperingkat mengenai seminar di atas. Hospital dan IPTA bermula pada hari ini. (Fax juga telah dihantar pada 15 Nov). Institusi lain akan turut dihantar secara berperingkat. Sila maklumkan sekiranya anda tidak mendapat surat. Ada sedikit pembetulan dari segi program dan juga no telefon untuk dihubungi. (En Saidin 019 3795013).

Walau bagaimanapun, Risalah dan borang pendaftaran ini juga boleh di muaturun di laman web OT di www.ot-malaysia.org . Di sebabkan kekurangan masa ada beberapa kekangan yang tidak menyempurnakan pengelolaan seminar ini. Walaubagaimana pun kami berusaha untuk menjadikan seminar ini sasuatu sesi yang penuh bermakna untuk perkembangan profesion OT.

Saya berharap maklumat ini di panjangkan kepada semua OT dan individu lain yang berminat. Segala maklumat ada di laman web, hanya arahkan mereka untuk melayarinya. Seminar ini berpeluang peserta untuk mendapat sijil penyertaan dari Secretary World Federation of OT dan saya rasa ianya mempunyai nilai tambah disamping pengetahuan dan Skill yang akan kita timba.

Tempatnya terhad dan di harap OT menyertainya dengan kadar segera. Penceramah menjanjikan peserta akan kembali dengan skill yang boleh dipratikkan selepas seminar ini nanti.

You can't afford to miss this seminar out.

The Young Site

Sebagai langkah untuk membudayakan ICT di kalangan kita OT, MOTA kini mengorak langkah ke OpenSource application dalam pengendalian websitenya.Anda dijemput untuk melayarinya di http://www.ot-malaysia.org/seperti biasa dan daftarkan nama anda di sana. Melalui pendaftaran disini, MOTA akan mengemaskinikan senarai OT seluruh Malaysia dan jugasenarai keahlian MOTA.

MOTA akan cuba untuk lebih fokus dalam memberi perkhidmatanpenyaluran maklumat melalui kaedah ini.Banyak kelebihan applikasi web ini... dari segi-Forum- Membuat review journal, book etc dan hantar terus ke website- members boleh hantar news terus ke muka depan (homepage).- Senarai keahlian- ad hoc corner (spt paging online)- dan macam2 ada yang boleh di tambah dari masa ke semasa.

Sebagai menyahut pelbagai permintan dalam AGM yang lepas.. MOTAmengharapkan minat timbul dari kalangan OT untuk menjadi moderator kepada mana-mana topik yang diminati (yg kita akan ujud di ruang forum). Ini adalah langkah pertama ke arah specialization. Sebarang pandangan sila salurkan dalam ruang feedback atau terus kepada En Adnan (Website Information Coordinator) atau kepada saya. So feel free to register and explore the web (belum complete sepenuhnya).

The Young Hats

As far as MOTA is concerned few Program Coordinators (PCo) has been formed to handle issues.
1. Pn Anil Kalsom (HBUK) M: 012 5671388
PCo for Standard & Quality. She can be contacted for this issue.

2. Mr Rajinder Singh (Private) M: 012 2361630
PCo for Professional Development. Call him to discuss issue.

3. En Zulkifli Rahim (HUSM) M: 0139301361
PCo for Publicity & Membership. En Zul is also delegate so any issue pertaining international relation, he is the one to be contacted.

Membership is handle by Ms Juridah (Pantai) M: 016 36143804.

Hanafiah (KSKB) M:019 2216575
PCo for Education & Research. Anyone interested in this issue pls communicate. Members for this Program:
Assoc Prof Nathan (UPM) M:016 2239690
Dr Sazlina (UKM) M: 0173627969
Pn Anil Kalsom (HBUK)M: 012 5671388
Mr Akehsan (UiTM) M: 019 6436469

Please channel your concern / issue to the respective PCo so that it can be heard and action could be taken. Members are also encourage to be part of the Program of their choise. We need people to move.... 'doing is the lacking'. Sahutlah cabaran ini.... bantulah untuk kita maju.

Disamping itu...En Ghazali (UiTM) M: 019 2853297 the Hon Secretary, pls communicate with him for any issue..
Pn Nadhaniza (HBUK) M: 012 5316560 the Hon Treasurer, if you need money, budget, or anything wrt financial pls call her.

Not to forget your EXCO
Mr Sulaiman (UiTM) Selangor - 019 2193563
Mr Rajinder (Pvt) KL - 012 2361630
Mr Hazlee (AStar) North - 012 4848814
Pn Faridah (Kuantan) - West - 016 9527515
Pn Syikin (HPermai) - South - 0167437221

AND me of course at 019 2216575.

So please make these Executives that you vote for, work with you and for the profesion.Marilah kita menunjukkan sikap profesionalisma, budaya penyayang dan kerja berpasukan melalui jalinan garis KOMUNIKASI yang JELAS.

Enabling the Young - Part II

I would like to feedback on the Seminar on Enabling Peopla throughTechnology and Environmental design that was carried out at KSKB yesterday.
Speakers:
1. Desleigh - University Queensland australia
2. Soh Say Beng - UMMC
3. Sulaiman - UiTM
4. Effendi - HKL
5. Saidin - KSKB
6. Hanafiah - KSKB

We also had chance to listen for 1st hand information from specialguests to speak their experience being w/chair and cruthes users
1. Raz Adiba Radzi
2. Shukri Hamdan
3. Zul

40 participants + 37 students were present.This seminar also created another milestone for the profession to work together with Perwira K9 (association for spinal cord injur fromK9 HKL)with the presence of Secretary, Raz and Treasurer, Zul during the seminar. We hope that we could continue such activities and update each other on any new development.

Enabling the Young

Dear all,

OT KSKB and MOTA would like to organise a day seminar on Enabling people through technology and environmental design. It will be on the12 July 2005. Speaker is from University Queensland, Australia.

This seminar will examine how occupational therapists have traditionally prescribed devices and modified the environment to accommodate impairments and the consequences of using this type of approach. It will also examine new conceptual frameworks such as the International Classification of Function (ICF) and how these approaches have altered the way in which devices and the environment are considered and how occupational therapists work to improve the lives of people with disabilities. It will also outline the range of technologies that can enable people with disabilities to live satisfying and productive lives.

It will also examine the evolution of design approaches and how these can change the way in which people with disabilities live and function in the community. We still have not decided whether to have it for a small scale seminar or do it for bigger capacity. Your response is highly appreciated.