As an Occupational Therapist, you will need to master following:

• advise healthcare users on occupational health
• advise on environmental alterations
• advise on healthcare users' informed consent
• apply context specific clinical competences
• apply techniques of occupational therapy
• assess risks for the elderly
• assist healthcare users achieve autonomy
• community-based rehabilitation
• comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice
• contribute to continuity of health care
• create individual treatment programmes
• educate patient's relations on care
• encourage healthcare user's self-monitoring
• ensure safety of healthcare users
• identify the healthcare user’s personal capacity
• monitor patients' progress related to treatment
• occupational science
• perform occupation analyses
• perform patient activity analyses
• physical medicine
• professional documentation in health care
• promote inclusion
• provide assistive technology
• record healthcare users' progress related to treatment
• remediate healthcare user's occupational performance
• undertake healthcare examination
• use computer programs to improve patients' skills
• use e-health and mobile health technologies
• use techniques to increase patients' motivation
• vocational rehabilitation
• work in multidisciplinary health teams

More generally, an occupational therapist is also versed in:

• communicate in healthcare
• comply with legislation related to health care
• deal with emergency care situations
• develop a collaborative therapeutic relationship
• develop a rehabilitation programme
• educate on the prevention of illness
• empathise with the healthcare user
• ergonomics
• follow clinical guidelines
• general medicine
• geriatrics
• health care legislation
• health care occupation-specific ethics
• human anatomy
• human physiology
• hygiene in a health care setting
• inform policy makers on health-related challenges
• instruct on the use of special equipment for daily activities
• interact with healthcare users
• manage healthcare users' data
• medical informatics
• medical terminology
• movement techniques
• neurology
• occupational physiology
• occupational therapy theories
• orthopaedics
• paediatrics
• pathology
• provide health education
• psychiatry
• psychology
• respond to changing situations in health care
• sociology
• supervision of persons
• work in a multicultural environment in health care

It also helps to know the following:

• assist children with special needs in education settings
• assist in performing physical exercises
• bobath therapy
• disorders affecting self-awareness
• identify research topics
• manage occupational therapy students
• mechanotherapy
• neuropsychology
• osteopathy
• provide early intervention therapy to infants
• use clinical assessment techniques
• ensure proper appointment administration
• first aid
• pedagogy
• psychotherapy principles
• public health
• use foreign languages for health-related research
• use foreign languages in patient care