Kyle Horan
Fourth Year Professional Development Plan
Professional Service Goals
Participate in food drive at my
job at the Duquesne Club.
Help a classmate work on a
project for journal club
Will help set up for Spaghetti
Dinner-SOTA
Professional Development Goals
Discover the mission statement
of my new CEL placement
Provide meaningful CEL
intervention activities
Learn how to clinically reason
within a team
Learn how to optimize
interpersonal and ethical
reasoning at St Anthony’s
Maintain good academic
standings of at least 3.0.
Practitioner Goals
Maintain current standings on
Castle Branch
Get to know some of the new
foreign exchange students from
China
Talk with a PT student to find out
how they are being trained
differently from OT students.
Fieldwork Preparation Goal(s)
Research the primary populations
I will work with and strategies for
interventions
Measureable Strategies to Evidence of how these goals were
Accomplish Goals achieved
Bring a bag of canned food when the Brought in soups
food drive starts in October.
Help Katie Gammer prepare an article Achieved: “App for post-stroke
discussion for the 1st journal club patients exercise protocols”
meeting
Measureable Strategies to Evidence of how these goals were
Accomplish Goals achieved
Speak with staff at the new CEL site Spoke with Ann Hanley and reviewed
where I am going to be stationed and mission of program.
find out what their mission is
Receive positive client feedback, x2
Attend clinical reasoning class and Achieved for Clin Reasoning 1
raise my hand at least once.
Client verbal feedback quotes
Study constantly and set aside time Achieved for Fall 2018
for leisure and sleep.
Measureable Strategies to Evidence of how these goals were
Accomplish Goals achieved
Check on the expiration dates of
fingerprints as well as child abuse
clearances
Spend at least one hour outside of Have had conversations with Luke…
class with one of the new students.
Speak with Kat Schrok on how she is Talked with Kat…more focus on
being trained and what she thinks of physical tests, less on process and
her classes. mental health
Measurable Strategies to Evidence of how you
Accomplish Goals accomplished these, goals
FW1A UPMC St Margaret Ortho Schedule mtg with Dr. Benson
FW1C= TELI: early learning for suggestions on relating well
institute (home visits) to kids

Ensure clearances are up to date
for my site
NBCOT Certification Exam
Prep Goal(s)
Download the “pocket prep”
NBCOT exam prep app to get an
idea on how the questions are
structured.
Look into the exam-prep class
offered by Duquesne and find out
who the professor in charge of it
is.
Measurable Strategies to
Accomplish Goals
Question per day-achieved
May pay for additional
questions.
Talked with a 5th year student for
basics. Will visit NBCOT
webpage for other study avenues.
Kyle Horan
Evidence of how you
accomplished these, goals
Bought the pocket prep app and
have since been doing a question
a day for the last 2 months.
Went to AOTA and attended two
different student lectures on
taking the NBCOT exam along
with relevant study strategies.