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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...

CPA’s Board of Directors is the governing body of the Association. It is the Board’s job to ensure that CPA fulfills its mission to advance the profession of physiotherapy in order to improve the health of Canadians. As a CPA member, you choose who serves on the Board, so it is helpful to know wh...

Pierre-Yves Lauzon, P.R.T.    I would like to take this opportunity today to talk about my profession, which is still largely unknown to the general public and the medical world. Who we are Physical rehabilitation therapists are Quebec health professionals who work in physiotherapy.1 This means t...

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...

Kim Tytler Are these themes familiar? You can watch life, or you can live it Opioids and pain management Healthy aging Living your life to its fullest potential The value of physiotherapy
  The common link? All have been used to represent National Physiotherapy Month as ways to start so...

When I first began my physiotherapy (PT) career, I worked in a clinical area with a wonderful physiotherapist assistant (PTA).  We hadn’t learned much about this role in school and I wasn’t quite sure what I could assign to this person. Wasn’t I supposed to be able to do all of this stuff myself?...

  This post features two authors who shed more light on being a physiotherapist assistant (PTA). Aurelie writes about how she decided to pursue being a PTA, and Amy explains what it actually means to be one. Part I – The Backstory: How I Became a PTA Aurelie Dimandja, PTA I remember the summer ...

If you don’t use Twitter, CPA’s Senior Practice Manager Chantal Lauzon empathizes with you. She had “no interest” in being a part of a social media platform where celebrity updates and a seemingly infinite stream of information is the norm. But in early February, she changed her mind. I sat down ...

On November 4th, 2015, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was asked why having a gender balanced cabinet was so important. His response was simple – “Because it is 2015”. (1) This succinct answer made me pause to reflect on my own career as a physiotherapist. Could I provide such a pointed answer if s...

I recently reviewed some interesting passages from a book where the main purpose was simple, menacing, and genius, all wrapped into a bound set of 592 pages. This Idea Must Die: Scientific Theories That Are Blocking Progress, edited by John Brockman, is a collection of essays where the authors ha...