News & Announcements

  • Neuroplasticity: How to rewire your brain

    Neuroplasticity: How to rewire your brain

    Dr Lara Boyd (Professor), was featured on the BBC providing an interview of brain plasticity and the pandemic. Watch the segment here.

  • Welcome to our NEW Clinical Sites – Feb 2021

    Welcome to our NEW Clinical Sites – Feb 2021

    We would like to give a big WELCOME and THANK YOU to all of the new clinical sites that have recently joined us! Please view our Clinical Education Frequently Asked Questions or contact us with any additional questions.  

  • Meet the first MPT-North Cohort

    Meet the first MPT-North Cohort

    We are now halfway through the first year of the first-ever MPT-North cohort! Here is what a few of the students had to say about their experience so far in the program. The Master of Physical Therapy – North program is delivered in partnership with the University of British Columbia and the University of Northern British Columbia.…

  • IEPEP is now Physio Refresh!

    IEPEP is now Physio Refresh!

    Physio Refresh includes all of the award-winning IEPEP content, plus more than ten new interactive modules, more flexible programming options, a fully virtual learning format, and a more user-friendly course environment. The 2021 delivery has adapted to the need to practice and be assessed, in a virtual format. Physio Refresh encompasses both theoretical and practical components and includes practice examinations and workshops which focus on knowledge,…

  • Janice Eng appointed to UBC’s highest faculty honour: University Killam Professor

    Janice Eng appointed to UBC’s highest faculty honour: University Killam Professor

    Dr. Janice Eng, a professor in the faculty of medicine’s department of physical therapy, has been awarded UBC’s highest honour conferred on a faculty member. A University Killam Professorship recognizes exceptional teachers and researchers who are leaders in their fields, and who have received international recognition for their talents and achievements. Dr. Eng is a world leader…

  • Meet Robbi Basran: GCOMPT Graduate

    Meet Robbi Basran: GCOMPT Graduate

    Name and Title(s): Robbi Basran, Physiotherapist – MPT, BKin, FCAMPT, CAFCI, FDN (IMS), CSCS Where do you work?: Coast Performance Rehabilitation (Kitsilano) What is your favourite thing about your work?  Helping people reach a certain goal whether it be completing a 10km run or simply getting back to an activity they love. Moving beyond being…

  • Nancy Cho receives a 2018-19 Alumni Builder award

    The Alumni Builder Award recognizes a cross section of alumni representing all faculties who have significantly contributed to the University and enriched the lives of others, and in doing so, have supported alumni University of British Columbia’s mission of realizing the promise of a global community with shared ambition of a better world and an exceptional UBC.…

  • A study by Dr. Naznin Virji-Babul shows that doing is important in learning.

    A study by Dr. Naznin Virji-Babul shows that doing is important in learning.

  • Meet Jeremy McAllister, telerehabilitation project manager

    Meet Jeremy McAllister, telerehabilitation project manager

    Jeremy McAllister will be working as a project manager on the recently funded telerehab project. Telerehab will offer a clinical placement model for teams of entry-level rehabilitation students (physiotherapy, occupational therapy, audiology / speech-language pathology) through virtual, mentored contact with patients in local, remote, urban and rural areas of British Columbia. This will include both…

  • Partnership to Expand Clinical Education and Provide Health Services in the North

    Partnership to Expand Clinical Education and Provide Health Services in the North

    When it comes to working with patients living in rural and remote areas, face-to-face instruction, education, and follow-up sessions are not always possible. That’s why many rehabilitation specialists have turned to the growing field of telehealth — using methods such as video-conferencing or information packages — to help bridge the gap and link patients in…