Calling all Physiotherapists! Share your experiences...(please!)

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Also, I'm curious, you say you're presently in a physio program? In Canada, you do many placements while you're going to physio school to give you the hands on. You've been volunteering in a physio clinic...? But this is not the placements you'd get in physio school? I ask because as a physio student you'd be going to a different location each placement, so you'd get hands-on in hospitals, community care possibly, clinics, and so on. This would give you a really good idea of what it's like to be a physio as you'd work with patients for a 5 - 6 week period depending on school.

With my program, we had two one week placements, followed by five six-week placements. They were spaced throughout the program so you'd do an academic unit, then a clinical placement, repeated.

The CPA and the CPO and the OPA all have lots of great information on-site, lots of ethics and practice information.