Since the start of the pandemic, the final clinical exam for physiotherapist graduates has been cancelled four times – putting their careers on hold at a time when there is already a shortage of physios in B.C.
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SASKATOON Master of Physiotherapy graduates Chantelle DeLong and Megan Lautner have been scheduled multiple times to take the Canadian Alliance of Physiotherapy Regulators (CAPR) competency exam – only to see it cancelled. “It’s just a lot of fear and anxiety. They keep canceling, they keep postponing things and they aren’t transparent about it,” DeLong told CTV News. Lautner and DeLong were both scheduled to take the exam in June 2020 but were informed in March 2020 it had been pushed back due to the COVID-19 pandemic. They say they were then set up to take the exam in the fall before it was postponed again.
Physio graduates fed up as clinical exams cancelled for 4th time during COVID-19
The Canadian Alliance of Physiotherapy Regulators has cancelled all of its clinical exams scheduled for 2021. It s the fourth time exams have been cancelled since March 2020, leaving new graduates in B.C. and across Canada unable to become fully registered physiotherapists.
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