Is occupational therapy easier than physiotherapy?

Everyone keeps saying it is.. its the same pay too but does anyone know?

Occupational Therapy is a lot easier to get into as its not as popular as physio - Physiotherapy is very competitive and Occupational Therapy fairly unknown. When I tell people I am about to start at degree in OT they always ask 'what's that?'

There is also (apparently) a shortage of OTs, which may also be another reason for lower grade requirements to encourage people to take up the course.

However, it is still hard work, after receiving a reading list for the first year it demonstrates how much physiology/anatomy/psychology goes into the OT training - it does not look easy!

But, I was also once interested in physio but my biology was not up to scratch lol, after receiving a poor AS level grade in biology, I decided to think of another profession - I declared my E in biology on my UCAS form, and still managed to get offers for OT.

hm surely physio involves more manual work whereas occupational is more about the thinking and less physical, am I right?

funnily enough my friend was an OT (Senior II) then retrained with me as a Physio....she prefers physio to OT now but at the time enjoyed the OT work, I guess physio is more her than the OT was!! We used to joke with her that she just needed the speech and language degree to be the 'Ultimate AHP'!

There may be a shortage of OT's but it's still really hard to get junior jobs once you qualify, not as bad as physio but it's going that way...