CAPR a Founding Partner in New International Physiotherapy Assessment Authorities Network
August 30, 2018International Physiotherapy Assessment: Who ya gonna call… when you need expertise in the assessment of physiotherapy education credentials? If you are the Australian Physiotherapy Council (APC), you call CAPR’s Credentialling Team – and vice versa. After productive exchanges between the two organizations, the APC decided to found the International Physiotherapy Assessment Authorities Network (IPAAN). Currently, there are members from APC, CAPR, the Health and Care Professions Council (UK), and CORU (Ireland). The group is working to find a platform to share and archive information about physiotherapy educational programs and credentials in various countries around the world.
Kathryn Tognon from APC says, “We are interested in establishing an international network … for the purposes of information exchange [regarding] developments within physiotherapy qualifications and regulation in other countries. This is something that we have recently been partaking in with the Canadian Alliance of Physiotherapy Regulators and given how valuable we have found it to be, we seek to expand this arrangement so that we can all benefit from each other’s knowledge and expertise.”