Are You Ready for It? Implementing Rehabilitation Treatment Specification System (RTSS) in Interprofessional Education 1940

Wednesday, October 29, 2025

8:00 AM - 9:00 AM

Location: ROOM: Private Dining Room #3 >>> DIRECTIONS: Third Floor >>> From the Main Elevator Bank, proceed left past Williford and Astoria. PDR #3 is located to the left in the small corridor.

Presenter(s)

Leanna W. Katz, OT, OTD, OTR (she/her/hers)

Clinical Assistant Professor
Boston University
Boston, MA, United States

Slides Slides
Sue Ann Sisto, PT, MA, PhD, FACRM

Professor and Chair of Rehabilitation Science
University at Buffalo
Buffalo, NY, United States
Carla Tierney-Hendricks, PhD, CCC-SLP (she/her/hers)

Research Fellow
Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital
Stoneham, MA, United States

Non-Presenting Contributor(s)

Susan E. Fasoli, OT, ScD, OTR (she/her/hers)

Professor Emerita
MGH Institute of Health Professions
Salem, MA, United States
Matthew Geddie, OTR, PhD.

Assistant Professor
TTUHSC
Lubbock, Texas, United States

Interprofessional Education (IPE) is an important strategy for preparing students and faculty how to best interact professionally. The Rehabilitation Treatment Specification System (RTSS) provides and framework and common language that dould enhance this communication across disciplines. This presentation will focus on the OT and PT professions primarily but will allow for discussion across all rehabilitation professions.

Learning Objectives:

Describe a framework for integrating the RTSS into interprofessional education to promote the development of students’ clinical reasoning skills and ability to examine and apply research evidence to clinical practice.
Discuss implementation strategies and tools to guide faculty education and the development of course objectives that map to interprofessional accreditation standards.
Understand how examples of RTSS learning activities may inform the delivery and scaffolding of course objectives/content throughout their own educational program.
Discuss potential benefits and outcomes of incorporating RTSS into interprofessional rehabilitation curricula.