FCE THINK TANK JUNE 2024: FCE and Fitness to Drive

This Session ran online on Tuesday,25 June.

A few people struggled to log into the webinar due to website problems. If you were unable to join please wtach the recording below to fulfill your CPD requirements.

The PowerPoint slides have been added to the materials tab above.

Useful resources and links

Medical fitness to drive SASOM Guideline 6 https://sasom.org/product/guideline06/

Links to Driver Fitness Coalition courses:

Level 1 complete: https://driverfitness.co.za/courses/occupational-therapy-driving-intervention-journey/

• The occupation and task analysis of driving.
• The role of the Occupational Therapist and the South African guidelines on functional driving evaluation.
• Introduction to medical fitness to drive.
• Legislation, ethics and liability pertaining to driving intervention.
• Fitness to drive screening.
• Introduction to adaptive driving.
• Introduction to driving rehabilitation.
• Driving cessation and community mobility.

Level 2 complete: https://driverfitness.co.za/dfc-courses-level2/

• Evidence-based practice and clinical reasoning in driving evaluation.
• Ethics: Insurance, liability and billing.
• Documentation: Record keeping and report writing
• Applied models and interpreting driving evaluation referrals.
• CDE: Interview, collateral and client-rated outcomes.
• CDE: Physical and sensory assessment.
• CDE: Cognition and cognitive assessment.
• CDE: Visual assessment.
• Physical assessment for adaptive driving.
• Community mobility assessment.
• Parking for persons with disabilities.

Position paper on role of OT in community mobility attached in resource folder in the materials tab.

Please complete the course evaluation. This is an HPCSA requirement of all courses. Your feedback is important in monitoring the quality of this learning activity and providing the speaker with feedback on how to improve or extend this workshop.

Please mark the evaluation complete and you will then be able to download, save or print your CEU certificate.

According to the new HPCSA requirements – we will submit your attendance information directly to HPCSA. You no longer need to do this. We do just recommend that you keep a copy of your certificate for your own records. Your course completion certificates will be stored on your profile indefinitely to ensure you still have a record of your CPD activities should you encounter any problems.

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This course is accredited for HPCSA: 1 Clinical CEU, Level 1

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We hope you enjoy this course!