Canadian qualifications
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Title:
Canadian qualifications
Creator:
cocinc
Date:
1/16/2001
Text:
A colleauge of mine forwarded this to me - So I will attempt to answer.
Can any Canadian Prosthetists inform us to required educational
quaifications in Canada to legaly practice there?
TonyBarr
Qualifications to practise in Canada is basically Canadian certification as
a Prosthetist and/or Orthotist by the Canadian Board for Certification for
Prosthetists & Orthotists (CBCPO). The profession in Canada has a website at
- www.pando.ca
All provinces have their own Ministries of Health which then may or may not
have a provincial plan to help fund Orthotic and Prosthetic devices. Most of
these provinces would set the quidelines of who or who cannot bill the
government for these services. In Ontario the Ministry of Health has the
Assistive Devices Program (ADP) which helps fund custom orthoses and
prostheses. These are not funded 100%. You must be a C.O(c) or C.P.(c) to
access this funding. This is not a lisence but a contract set up with ADP.
There are NO lisenced acts in Canada that give the Orthotists and
Prosthetists the legal right to have a scope of practise (lisensed act).
Even though most provinces may only fund those with the C.O. or C.P.
professional designation.
There are also strict ethical guidelines that CBCPO has in terms of ethical
practise which would deal with those in the profession practicing without
the proper qualifications. These though would not have jurisdiction outside
our profession.
I hope this will shed some light on the inquiry
--
Dan Blocka, B.Sc., C.O.(c), F.C.B.C.,
Coordinator,
Prosthetic & Orthotic Educational Programs,
c/o SCIL,
Sunnybrook & Women's College Health Science Centre,
2075 Bayview Ave.,
Toronto, ON., CANADA
M4N 3M5
416-480-5783 (ph) 416-480-5975(fax) e-mail - <Email Address Redacted>
website - <URL Redacted>
Can any Canadian Prosthetists inform us to required educational
quaifications in Canada to legaly practice there?
TonyBarr
Qualifications to practise in Canada is basically Canadian certification as
a Prosthetist and/or Orthotist by the Canadian Board for Certification for
Prosthetists & Orthotists (CBCPO). The profession in Canada has a website at
- www.pando.ca
All provinces have their own Ministries of Health which then may or may not
have a provincial plan to help fund Orthotic and Prosthetic devices. Most of
these provinces would set the quidelines of who or who cannot bill the
government for these services. In Ontario the Ministry of Health has the
Assistive Devices Program (ADP) which helps fund custom orthoses and
prostheses. These are not funded 100%. You must be a C.O(c) or C.P.(c) to
access this funding. This is not a lisence but a contract set up with ADP.
There are NO lisenced acts in Canada that give the Orthotists and
Prosthetists the legal right to have a scope of practise (lisensed act).
Even though most provinces may only fund those with the C.O. or C.P.
professional designation.
There are also strict ethical guidelines that CBCPO has in terms of ethical
practise which would deal with those in the profession practicing without
the proper qualifications. These though would not have jurisdiction outside
our profession.
I hope this will shed some light on the inquiry
--
Dan Blocka, B.Sc., C.O.(c), F.C.B.C.,
Coordinator,
Prosthetic & Orthotic Educational Programs,
c/o SCIL,
Sunnybrook & Women's College Health Science Centre,
2075 Bayview Ave.,
Toronto, ON., CANADA
M4N 3M5
416-480-5783 (ph) 416-480-5975(fax) e-mail - <Email Address Redacted>
website - <URL Redacted>
Citation
cocinc, “Canadian qualifications,” Digital Resource Foundation for Orthotics and Prosthetics, accessed November 5, 2024, https://library.drfop.org/items/show/215638.
