Part 1 of this series discussed some of the reasons for, and difficulty in, occupational therapists defining clinical excellence, and part 2 gave background information on the competency approach and the critical incident technique as a means of identifying and encouraging successful performance. In part 3, this work is applied to occupational therapy research and some of the current findings, on the nature of occupational therapy experience and expertise, are presented.
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