Sponsored by the International Health Division
Date: Monday, July 26, 2010 - CANCELLED
Time: 8:00am – 4:30pm (7 contact hours)
Speaker: Christopher Sulway, PT, MHSc
Attire &
Equipment: This course includes lecture, workshop and group discussion. Business casual dress is recommended.
Prerequisites: None
Eligibility: Physiotherapists, Physiotherapy Students, Occupational Therapists, Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists, and all rehabilitation support personnel
Tuition:
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Delegates |
Non-delegates |
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CPA Members |
300 |
375 |
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Students |
200 |
250 |
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Non-Members |
450 |
600 |
OVERVIEW:
This is a one day workshop for rehabilitation professionals that builds on interprofessional education initiatives, and describes recent research and best practices to explore rehabilitation in the context of HIV. People living with HIV are living longer, and may be living with impairments, activity limitations and participation restrictions due to HIV and/or its associated treatments. As a result, rehabilitation professionals have an increasingly important role to play in HIV care, treatment and support. This course will enhance and increase the capacity of rehabilitation professionals to respond to the rehabilitation needs of people living with HIV. The course will use interprofessional and case-based learning principles through presentation and interactive discussion and will be facilitated by persons living with HIV and rehabilitation professionals.
Pre-course learning materials will be provided in the form of an online course module. Access details and passwords will be emailed to all registrants one week prior to the workshop.
This course is provided by the Canadian Working Group on HIV and Rehabilitation.
OBJECTIVES:
Upon completion of this workshop participants will:
- Understand the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (WHO, 2001) in the context of HIV/AIDS;
- Understand the biology, epidemiology, transmission and progression of HIV;
- Understand the implications of living with HIV as a lifelong, episodic condition (characterized by intermittent periods of wellness and illness);
- Understand the impairments, activity limitations and participation restrictions that people living with HIV may experience;
- Understand the social determinants of health and their impact on the experience of living with HIV;
- Understand the expanded rehabilitation roles and contributions of stakeholders in the rehabilitation of persons living with HIV throughout the continuum of care;
- Understand the importance and demonstrate the knowledge and skills associated with interprofessional, collaborative patient-centred care;
- Understand the issues related to sensitive practice with persons who may experience multiple vulnerabilities including living with HIV, (e.g. stigma, racism, homophobia);
- Understand the emerging rehabilitation issues for people living with HIV, (e.g. return to work, stroke, transplants, HIV and aging);
- Understand the similarities and differences between HIV and other lifelong, episodic conditions and permanent disabilities (cross-disability perspective);
- Understand ways in which rehabilitation professionals may influence policy in the context of HIV/AIDS;
- Understand ways the issues and strategies related to rehabilitation (needs, services, programs, policies, research, etc) in the Canadian context relate to rehabilitation issues and strategies in developing countries.
SPEAKER BIO:
Christopher Sulway, PT, MHSc
Chris is a physiotherapist who has worked clinically in acute care rehabilitation settings in both the public and private sector. Recently, he has shifted his focus to health care administration and currently works at St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto.
Chris is also active in the areas of education and research. He is a lecturer at the University of Toronto and an Associate at the University of Toronto International Centre for Disability and Rehabilitation. He is an advocate for high quality health care, accessible to all and delivered in the most socially responsible manner.
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