Considering Canada?

Immigrating to Canada and becoming a licensed, practising physiotherapist can be a challenging process. CAPR has developed a series of resources to help you better understand the regulatory and working environment. Read More

About the Credentialling Process

For internationally-educated physiotherapists, credentialling is the process of evaluating documentary evidence to determine if your qualifications are not substantially different from Canadian entry-to-practice standards. This section provides detailed information on the process, timing and costs associated with credentialling. Read More

Taking the Exam

Eligible candidates must successfully complete the Physiotherapy Competency Exam (PCE) before applying for an independent licence to practice physiotherapy in Canada (except for in the province of Quebec). Click here for more information about the PCE, including the exam format, upcoming dates and associated fees. Read More

Licensure

“Physiotherapy”, also known as “physical therapy” is a regulated profession in Canada. That means by law, you are required to be licensed to practise. The responsibility for licensing physiotherapists is held by provincial and territorial Regulatory Colleges. Read More

Cross-Border Physiotherapy within Canada

About the Canadian Alliance of Physiotherapy Regulators

The Canadian Alliance of Physiotherapy Regulators (CAPR) is a credentialling and assessment agency that provides evaluation services on behalf of our Members – the Canadian provincial and territorial physiotherapy regulators (called Colleges). Read More

Clinical Component Update for the Week of August 9

August 10, 2021

New Troubleshooting Guide Coming Soon

Imagine this: You’re taking the exam. You log in and then your internet goes down! Or you don’t have audio! How do you respond? What do you do?

We know you’re worried about all the things that might go wrong on exam day. Our goal is to make the exam day experience smooth and easy. This begins with testing your computer equipment and carefully following the minimum technical requirements we released last week. Please do not skip any steps!

Additionally, we will be releasing a Troubleshooting Guide shortly. We want to make sure everyone knows exactly what to do and who to contact if something goes wrong on exam day. Look out for the new guide soon.

Window 1 Examiners have been confirmed

We’re pleased to share that we have confirmed the Examiners for all Window 1 exam sessions. More than 70 Examiners will participate in exam sessions from September 8-October 6. We will provide Examiners with orientation materials next week and hold content and software training over the next several weeks.

Thank you to the Clinical Test Development Group

We want to acknowledge the incredible contribution of CAPR’s Clinical Test Development Group in supporting our work to adapt the clinical exam for a virtual environment. This work has involved modifying and reviewing all clinical station content to ensure it remains relevant to entry-level physiotherapy practice across the country and assesses physiotherapy competency in a fair and consistent way. The CTDG has taken the candidate’s experience into careful consideration when looking at all station content to minimize additional stress and uncertainty for candidates, who are the first physiotherapists to take the exam in a virtual setting.

CTDG members are physiotherapy leaders from across Canada. They have maintained their work supporting their patients and the healthcare system while continuing to make an invaluable contribution to CAPR and the Canadian physiotherapy community.

Thank you to all our CTDG members! This work would be impossible without you.

Members of the Clinical Test Development Group (CTDG)

National Chair: Cheri Gunn
Alberta	British Columbia	Hamilton	Kingston
Mona Iyizoba, Chair David Benterud Stacy Culbert Tara Willes Sheena Whyte	Maria Bertoni, Chair Rosalyn Jones Joseph Anthony Trevor Moizumi	Barbara Pollock, Chair Gillian Manson Denise Lai Anastasia Newman	Diana Hopkins-Rosseel, Chair Graeme Leverette, Co-Chair (Tasos) Tom Doulas Kate Attwood Kyle Vader
Manitoba/Northwestern Ontario	Nova Scotia	Saskatchewan	Toronto
Karen Malenchak, Co-Chair Jessica Marasco, Co-Chair Rachel Desrochers Kim Okano Cynthia Otfinowski Madeleine Hongisto	Suzanne Taylor, Chair Janice Palmer Alison McDonald Krista Sweet Jessica Roy	Soo Kim, Chair Susan Tupper Melissa Koenig Kristen Quigley	Lisa Muc, Chair Mavis Fung Mindi Goodman Catherine Patterson

Orientation videos—update

Candidates in Window 1 will receive an email this week providing them with their Qpercom exam login details. They will be able to log in and make sure that they can access the Qpercom system. We’d hoped to have orientation videos available at the same time but they aren’t quite ready yet. Rather than delay release of the login credentials, we’ve gone ahead with those. We will provide video links as soon as we can: to provide a candidate’s perspective of the Qpercom exam experience. Our new target date for that is August 27.