The Canadian Alliance of Physiotherapy Regulators (CAPR) is a not-for-profit organization that provides standardized entry-to-practice assessment on behalf of the Canadian provincial and territorial physiotherapy regulators1.
CAPR has embarked on Evaluation Services Re-envisioned (ESR), a two-year project focused on improving and modernizing the entry-to-practice competency assessment model to prepare physiotherapists for licensure in Canada. Components of the new model include:
- One licensure exam that would replace the written and clinical exams.
- Expedited pathway to the exam for internationally educated physiotherapists (IEPTs) with comparable education and training to that of Canadian-educated physiotherapists (CEPTs).
- Equivalency assessment for IEPTs who do not have comparable education and training.
- Enhancing support for IEPTs and CEPTs entering Canadian practice.
Physiotherapy is a regulated profession in Canada which means that individual provincial and territorial regulators set the entry-to-practice requirements for their jurisdiction. Currently, no province has approved the use of CAPR’s new entry-to-practice model. CAPR is meaningfully collaborating with system partners to ensure the assessment tools meet the needs of regulators, the public, and the profession. CAPR together with the provincial and territorial regulators are committed to communicating information as it becomes available and as decisions are made.
Please direct any inquiries to Brandi Park, National Director, Evaluation Services at Brandi.Park@alliancept.org
1 With the exception of Quebec.
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