Transforming lives through occupation, service, and advocacy. Loma Linda University's Department of Occupational Therapy's mission aims to graduate compassionate, service-oriented leaders who demonstrate excellence and integrity to advance practice and facilitate occupational engagement among individuals, communities, and societies. Graduates will demonstrate critical thinking, leadership, and service to wholistically promote health and occupational justice. The engaged educational process will transform students into compassionate practitioners, advocates, and visionaries who utilize research and evidence-based practice to meet the needs of our changing society. The MOT program is primarily a ?Face to Face? (F2F) program where students use the University's Learning Management System, Canvas, to supplement the F2F learning experience. One core MOT classis a distance education (DE) class offered online through Canvas and incorporates best practices in DE, such as having substantial interaction between faculty and students, and incorporating active learning opportunities. The University has a Canvas tutorial in the student's application registration portal with instructions on how to use the Learning Management System. While in the program students may take occasional hybrid classes taught by other departments.