Alison Greig

As the Associate Head of the MPT Program, she pursues Educational Leadership as a way to enhance the teaching and learning across the MPT Program through the leadership of the curriculum, support of faculty and teaching staff, and contributions to innovative educational models that align with the best teaching practice in health professional education. Alison is Chair of the MPT Curriculum Committee and MPT Program Committees. She has been successful in obtaining over $1.2M in grant funding to support innovation and evaluation of educational initiatives. Since 2014, she has obtained over $170,000 (competitive) as a Principal Investigator (PI); and as a Co-PI or team member, and contributed to projects that have received over $514,000 (competitive) and $550,000 (non-competitive) funding from a variety of sources. From this work, Alison has contributed to five publications in peer-reviewed journals and consistently presents (poster and podium) at national and international conferences.

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Journal Publications

• Dawes D, Rusticus S, Beck C, Dawes M, Mortenson B, Ross C, Greig A. Development of five online modules for teaching evidence-informed healthcare: the West coast Interprofessional Clinical Knowledge Evidence Disseminator (WICKED) Project. BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine. 2021;26(5):237-240.
• Briggs AM, Hinman RS, Darlow B, Bennell KL, Leech M, Pizzari T, Greig AM, MacKay C, Bendrups A, Larmer PJ, Francis-Cracknell A, Houlding E, Desmond LA, Jordan JE, Minaee N, Slater H. Confidence and attitudes towards osteoarthritis care among the current and emerging health workforce: A multi-national interprofessional study. ACR Open Rheumatology. 2019;1(4): 219-235.
• Briggs AM, Houlding E, Hinman RS, Desmond LA, Bennell KL, Darlow B, Pizzari T, Leech M, MacKay C, Larmer PJ, Bendrups A, Greig AM, Francis-Cracknell A, Jordan JE, Slater H. Health professionals and students encounter multi-level barriers to implementing high-value osteoarthritis care: A multi-national study. Osteoarthritis and Cartilage. 2019;27(5): 788-804.
• Dean E, Greig A, Murphy S, Roots R, Nembhard N, Rankin A, Bainbridge L, Anthony J, Hoens A, Garland J. Raising the Priority of Lifestyle-Related Noncommunicable Diseases in Physical Therapy Curricula. Physical Therapy. 2016;96(7):940-8. doi:10.2522/ptj.20150141.
• Greig A, Bennell K, Briggs A, Hodges P. Trunk muscle activity is modified in osteoporotic vertebral fracture and thoracic kyphosis with potential consequences for vertebral health. PLOS ONE. 2014; 9(10). doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0109515.

Conference Presentations

• Bradley A, Greig A, Wolf P, Bartolic S. Student peer review and assessment – experiences from four diverse university disciplines. Proceedings of The International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL); 2022 Nov 2-5; Kelowna, Canada.44.
• Greig A, Anthony J, Louie R, Murphy S, Sauve K. Teaching and Assessing Professionalism Competence “Escape Room” Style. Proceedings of the Lilly Conference on Teaching for Active and Engaged Learning; 2020 Feb 27-29; San Diego, USA.
• Greig A, Rankin A, Bradley A. Facilitating high-quality clinical reflection writing in physiotherapy education – a calibrated peer-review process. Proceedings of the World Confederation for Physical Therapy (WCPT); 2019 May 10-13; Geneva, Switzerland.
• Greig A, Rankin A, Bradley A. Peer Assessment and Feedback of Written Reflections is Associated with High-Quality Reflection in Physiotherapy Education. Proceedings of the International Clinical Skills Conference (ICSC); 2019 May 19-22; Prato, Italy.
• Briggs A, Slater H, Bennell K, Hinman R, Leech M, Darlow B, Greig A, Bendrups A, Jordan J, Pizzari T, Chang S. Assessing Capacity of the Current and Emerging Health Care Workforce to Deliver Best Practice Care for People with Osteoarthritis. Proceedings of the of the World Congress on Osteoporosis, Osteoarthritis and Musculoskeletal Diseases; 2018 Apr 19-22; Krakow, Poland. Abstract published in Osteoporos Int. 2018;29(Suppl 1):403-4.
• Greig A, Dawes D, Ross C, Dawes M, Rusticus S. Development of online assessments to measure evidence-based practice competence. Proceedings of the Lilly Conference on Teaching for Active and Engaged Learning; 2018 Feb 22-25; Anaheim, USA.
• Greig A, Dawes D, Anthony J‎, Beck C, Ross C, Dawes M, Hoens A, Hubinette M, Klassen T, Lee M, Mortenson B‎, Newlands C, Rusticus S. The West coast Interprofessional Clinical Knowledge Evidence Disseminator – A “WICKED” approach to teaching evidence-informed practice. Proceedings of the International Clinical Skills Conference (ICSC); 2017 May 20-24; Prato, Italy.
• Greig A and Murphy S. Tough times don’t last; tough people do: Teaching resilience in health professional education. Proceedings of the International Clinical Skills Conference (ICSC); 2017 May 20-24; Prato, Italy.
• Greig A, Murphy S, Regehr G. Virtual Patient Cases: Can They Teach Foreign Trained Health Professionals about Differences in Health Culture and Context? Proceedings of the Canadian Conference for Medical Education (CCME); 2017 Apr 29 – May 3; Winnipeg, Canada.

As the Associate Head of the MPT Program, Alison has leadership responsibility for the entry-to-practice Master of Physical Therapy (MPT) program. This includes responsibilities related to the MPT students, faculty and clinical faculty, instructors, and patient partners who contribute in the educational program. Alison is responsible to evaluate and develop the MPT curriculum and is committed to ensuring that the MPT curriculum is delivered in compliance with the National accreditation standards and is responsive to changes in health care delivery.

Alison’s interest in the use of technology in teaching and learning, and administrative leadership have supported the expansion of the MPT Program to a distributed education model with effective delivery of the MPT Program and its curriculum across multiple sites. She actively engages in and contributes to Physical Therapy national organizations including extensive contributions with Physiotherapy Education Accreditation Canada (PEAC) (Board President, Accreditation Committee member, Peer-review Team member, and Chair of the PEAC Standards Review Committee which developed the 2020 Accreditation Standards); subject matter expert committees for the development of the 2017 National Physiotherapy Competency Profile and the 2019 National Physiotherapy Entry-to-Practice Curriculum Guidelines; and Chair of the Canadian Council of Physiotherapy University Program’s (CCPUP) Curriculum Committee.

Alison is the lead of the Physio Refresh Program which supports Internationally Educated Physical Therapists (IEPTs) readiness for Canadian practice and preparation for the registration exams and has seen many successes over its 15 years. Alison has led the ongoing application for funding to develop the program and further build educational resources; implementation of an ongoing quality improvement model to evaluate and improve the program; dissemination of the program’s successes and “lessons learned” with other IEPT Bridging Programs and other health professions in Canada; continuation of the expansion and evolution of the program through partnerships with the College of Physical Therapists in BC.