#59: OT Education for Planetary Health with Moses Ikiugu

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Learn more about our guest: Moses Ikiugu PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA

Read the article and discussion upon which this podcast is based.

Released July 10, 2023.

What does planetary health have to do with occupational therapy?

The author’s of this week’s article argue that engagement with environmental sustainability is foundational for our profession.

The authors aim to help OT students and professionals translate environmental awareness to practical action. They theorize 3 skills to do so:

  1. Clinical reasoning
  2. Bi-directional questioning
  3. Interprofessional education.

To help us unpack this, we are excited to welcome to the podcast Moses Ikiugu, PhD, OTR/L, FAOT. Dr. Ikiugu has been a pioneer in connecting OT practice to global health. He’ll share how his own query into the area has influenced his own work as an OT educator—and the practical implications for your own OT practice.

Primary Journal Article Explored

When you log in, be sure to check out the OT Potential Club’s written breakdown of the following research article. Then, share your questions and thoughts with fellow practitioners.

Hess, K. Y., & Rihtman, T. (2023). Moving from theory to practice in occupational therapy education for planetary health: A theoretical view. Australian occupational therapy journal, 10.1111/1440-1630.12868. Advance online publication.

Supporting Research and Journal Articles

Lieb, L. C. (2020). Occupation and Environmental Sustainability: A scoping review. Journal of Occupational Science, 29(4), 505–528.

Huss, N., Ikiugu, M. N., Hackett, F., Sheffield, P. E., Palipane, N., &; Groome, J. (2020). Education for Sustainable Health Care: From Learning to professional practice. Medical Teacher, 42(10), 1097–1101.

Learning Objectives

  • You will be able to recognize the components of “environmental reasoning” a form of clinical reasoning to be taught to novice OTs.
  • You will be able to identify the components of bidirectional questioning, a skill that was proposed to be taught to OT students.

Supplemental Materials

Agenda

Intro (5 minutes)

Breakdown and analysis of journal article (5 minutes)

  • What is Planetary Health?
  • What does planetary health have to do with OT?
  • Planetary Health and OT Education
  • What was the purpose of this paper?
  • Discussion
  • Takeaways for OT practitioners

Discussion on practical implications for OTs (with Moses Ikiugu) (50 minutes)

  • How did you first find OT?
  • How did you become interested in OT and planetary health?
  • You’ve been involved in multiple publications on OT and planetary health, including the The WFOT guiding principles on sustainability, how have these collaborations influenced your own teaching at South Dakota?
  • What was your initial impression of this 2023 article?
  • Do you find that there is “broad agreement” about the urgency of tackling sustainability in OT education? & What would you say to someone who is skeptical about the importance of this topic?
  • What are some examples of how OTs can embed clinical reasoning into practice, in at a novice level (along the lines of reduce, reuse, recycle)?
  • How can we begin to employ more complex clinical reasoning, through thinking about “people” “planet” and “profit”?
  • The article called us to move beyond person-centered care to “climate-just person centered care”, which the authors called this “two-eyed seeing”. Was this a helpful concept to you? And, how can you see OTs utilizing it?
  • What are some examples of interprofessional collaboration that have inspired you?
  • Promoting planetary health in OT is hard, complex work. What keeps you motivated?

Contact Hours

1 hour (0.1 AOTA CEUs). Released online from Aurora, NE.

See public-facing course page for more details.

Speakers

Moses Ikiugu PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA

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Sarah Lyon, OTR/L

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This is a great topic and very much needed for our profession.

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I’m so glad you listened to this one! I so enjoyed learning from Dr. Ikiugu!!

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Thank you Sarah for bringing in professor Moses Ikiugu. As I am currently practicing in Nairobi, East Africa, I really resonated with aspects of poverty and corruption affecting people’s choices when it comes to how they handle the planet.

With the podcast knowledge, I shall embrace ways to save more trees and carbon emission through digitalization of recourses in my practice. From Wangari Mathai’s story of the humming bird, I choose to be a humming bird, I will do the best I can.

Thanks

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Thanks, Perpetua. it’s been a long time! I hope you are doing well. Its good to have allies for sustainability in Kenya.

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A very interesting article and conversation! This is not something I had thought about before as the profession linked with planetary health.

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We have a group (Occupational Therapists for Environmental Action) that focuses on this issue. The link is: #59: OT Education for Planetary Health with Moses Ikiugu - #8. Our next meeting is tomorrow evening, 6:30 pm Central time (see Zoom link below).

Our next meeting is this Thursday, August 3rd 2023. Here is the link: https://wustl-hipaa.zoom.us/j/97031063263

Can’t wait to see you there!

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Warm Regards,

Jill Clancy MS OTR/L, CNS, SYT-S (she/her/hers)

Occupational Therapist, Certified Neuro Specialist, Somatic Yoga Therapy Student

jillian.clancy0@gmail.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jillian-clancy-ms-otr-l-cns-624a71107/

You are very welcome to join us. Moses

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Thank you Moses and Sarah for discussing this important topic and doing it in such an engaging way. The article was super and this Podcast really helped me synthesize more about what I read and knew prior. Moses shared such great examples!

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Thanks, Tee. This was an excellent dicussion. I am happy you enjoyed it. Moses

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I’m impressed by the idea of connecting OT to planet. Very encouraging! Thanks for the presentation. It has opened my eyes in a different way.

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Thanks, Winnie. This topic is very close to my heart because I see the effect of climate change on people who are very close to me.

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Hi Dr Ikiugu,
I noted you are from Mt Kenya’s slopes like me and was very impressed. I’m from Nyeri, lived in the US for some time but now back in Nairobi. I was very touched by the choice of this very important aspect - Environment and how we could improve it for our future benefit. Keep it up!! Thanks to Sarah too for bringing you into her site so you could reach many.
May you both keep doing the good job.
Thanks.

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Thanks, Winnie. I come from Meru (Northern slopes of Mt. Kenya). Thanks for your support. It would be great if you could introduce the topic to the Kenyan OTs!

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I’ve started evaluating my compound already. In time I will. Thanks.

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That is Great! Thanks!

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I am very happy with Dr Ikiugu topics on OT, he focus on a broader picture by engaging with community and environment. Thanks for sharing your experience.

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Thank you. I ppreciate

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So appreciated this talk! I’m inspired.

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