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Tim Paquette
  Today’s learners not only have a wide variety of ways to access professional development, they can also do so 24/7.
  Expectations of learners in present-day society have risen exponentially. They want self-directed learning, available anytime and anywhere.
  Onl...

Blayne Burrows You are a new graduate. You are working in musculoskeletal practice, and you are looking to build your toolbox for assessing and treating your patients. You are looking to build your clinical reasoning skills and make connections with mentors and colleagues working in musculoskelet...

Margaret McNeely Story…  61-year-old gentleman with oropharyngeal cancer, treated with surgery and radiation therapy. “The surgery and radiation therapy were very important…it was important for them to remove the cancer.  However, I thought I was never going recover, ever be the same again… trea...

Kathy Davidson PT, Chair Steering Committee, Executive Director PEAC, Chantal Lauzon PT, Senior Practice Manager, CPA, Amy Stacey, Past President NPAA
  Some of you may not know that physiotherapist assistants (PTAs) in Canada are more and more frequently educated jointly with occupational ...

Melissa Anderson, PT
  Welcome to the third edition of #30REPS! We launched this biennial project back in 2015, with 30 blog articles on the topic of strength training.  Our second edition, in 2017, saw 30 blog posts on issues of fraud, abuse and waste in health care.  Both campaigns were e...

Melissa Anderson, PT
  The strength of CPA’s voice comes from our biggest asset - our membership. A national association that represents more than 15,000 physiotherapists, physiotherapist assistants, physical rehabilitation therapists, and physiotherapy students, we depend on our members to...

Chantal Lauzon
  CPA started hosting Forums in 2017, following a decision to hold Congress every other year. But what is a Forum? It is a platform for open dialogue, discussion and exchange focused on one topic. In 2017, the theme was leadership. In 2019, the theme is promoting healthy agin...

Pat Miller, PT, PhD, Vanima Dal Bello-Haas, PT, PhD, Chantal Lauzon, PT, BSc (PT) What is this project about? The Canadian Physiotherapy Association (CPA) has partnered with Dr. Vanina Dal Bello-Haas and Dr. Pat Miller from McMaster University to identify a set of core professional values and ass...

Tim Paquette and Maggie Bergeron
  When CPA examined options for the development of a new Professional Development Marketplace (PDM) platform, the current conditions for learning needed to be taken into consideration.
  Learning and access to knowledge in today’s world is vastly diffe...

Chantal Lauzon, PT
  In 2015-2017, CPA embarked on a Quality Physiotherapy campaign. The final outcome was a toolkit to enable members to explore each dimension of quality at their own pace.
  A committee representing all facets of physiotherapy in Canada has adapted the definitions o...