Using a personal computer for fieldwork scheduling in a university occupational therapy program.
An interactive computer program, written in Basic A, developed for fieldwork scheduling to reduce costs of having scheduling done by an outside agency is described. Developed for use with the available personal computers in the institution, this scheduling program can be used in any situations where N people have J choices during K time periods to be assigned to H sites. The data pool results from student requests for placements according to available fieldwork sites, aided by faculty advisement designed to help them choose sites that meet their individual needs. Information in the resulting printouts includes student assignments to fieldwork sites, identification of any students who did not receive a placement and a listing of unassigned fieldwork spaces.
Professor and Associate Chair, Department of Occupational Therapy, The School of Allied Health Sciences.
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