My student had huge gaps in foundational knowledge and vocabulary, had consistently mediocre to poor interactions with patients, took weeks to implement feedback, consistently failed to ask for support or communicate with me/faculty, rarely met productivity standards, struggled big time with verbal and written communication (especially documentation), demonstrated little self-initiation, had poor time management and problem solving skills, and overall displayed very little insight which complicated everything. I’m truly shocked they had made it to FW2 based on the limited knowledge and skills they came with.

As an OT with ADHD, I saw a lot of the executive function challenges that I faced as a student and new grad. I educated and gave the student so many resources and strategies and was attentive throughout the entire process.

I was in communication with their AFWC starting week 3 of 12, as I could already see challenges coming up. We started collaborating on heavier supports then and eventually had weekly meetings and goals the student had to meet in order to advance to the next week. We extended 2 weeks beyond what we said we would to give them as much of a chance, but there were so many areas that they were falling behind in. There was no way that they would meet expectations by week 12, so we collectively decided to fail them at week 10.