CPTE Strategic Planning – Action Plan

CPTE Strategic Planning Update:  May 2010

Initiative #1 Financial Stability

1.  Partnerships: ACHIEVED AND ONGOING:

• Partnership with School of Physical Therapy for Systematic Reviews online course (Technology Enhanced Learning Grant).
• Partnership with School of Physical Therapy for successful SHRF Research Connections grant, College of Medicine Visiting Lecturer Grant, University of Saskatchewan Visiting Lecturer Grant, and the University of Saskatchewan Conference Fund Grant. These grants were used for the 2009 Knowledge Sharing Event: Research for the Future - Moving Physical Therapy Forward.
• Partnership with SMSCS for 2009 and 2010 Sport Med Saturdays.
• Partnership with Continuing Professional Learning (College of Medicine) for June 2009 Interdisciplinary Headache Conference.
• Partnership with Continuing Professional Learning (College of Medicine) and Continuing Nursing Education for a September 2010 Interprofessional Management of Diabetes and its Complications Conference. We have received an Interprofessional Health Collaboration of Saskatchewan grant for this conference, and will be studying the effects of this interprofesssional learning and submitting a publication to a continuing education journal based on this partnership.
• Partnership with Craven Sport Services for the Neuro-proprioceptive Taping (January 2010) and Blaise Dubois New Trends in the Prevention of Running Injuries (September 2010) courses.
• Collaboration with Sport Physiotherapy Saskatchewan and Anderson Sports Physiotherapy for Kinesiotaping and First Responder Recertification courses (March 2010).
• Collaboration with Yorkton Physiotherapy (December 2009) and Cypress Hills Health Region (September 2010) for rural course offerings.
• Collaboration with Regina Qu'Appelle Health Region in "The Building Blocks of Early Intervention" pediatric course (March 2010) and the "Mobilization of the Nervous System" course (October 2010).
• Collaboration with CBI for the Mulligan Lower Quadrant course (December 2010) in Regina.
• Partnership with School of Physical Therapy for Research for the Future: Moving Physical Therapy Forward 2010 (October 2010). Successful in College of Medicine Visiting Lecturer Grant for this event.
• Collaboration with Saskatoon Falls Consortium for 2011 conference: Falls Prevention Across the Continuum - From Acute to Long-term Care and the Community.

2.  Interprofessional Course Content:  ACHIEVED AND ONGOING

• Since May 2009: Vestibular Rehabilitation course, Interdisciplinary Headache Conference, Global Health Disparities videostream, Neuro-proprioceptive Taping course, The Building Blocks of Early Intervention pediatric course, Falls Prevention videstream, Tai Chi for Rehab Professionals, Matt Walsh Running course, Interprofessional Management of Diabetes and its Complications conference.

3.  Speakers:  National and international speakers booked 1-2 years in advance when possible:  ACHIEVED.

4.  Course Planning: Full course complement -  ACHIEVED 2010.  Videostream learning is now available as well.

5.  Budget Reporting: ACHIEVED. Budgets are reported to the CPTE Management Committee twice per year, and to the University of Saskatchewan annually.

6.  Grants applied for 3-6 months in advance of courses:  ACHIEVED AND ONGOING.   For 2009:

• Saskatchewan Lung Association (Mary Massery)
• Worker's Compensation Board of Saskatchewan (Professional Issues & Interdisciplinary Headache Conference)
• Saskatchewan Government Insurance (Interdisciplinary Headache Conference)
• Heart and Stroke Foundation (Elizabeth Dean)
• U of S Conference Fund Grant (Knowledge Sharing 2009)
• Depends and Poise (Pelvi-perineal Rehabilitation)
• Pfizer (2009 Pelvi-Perineal Rehabilitation, and 2010 Advanced course)
• Assisted in development of grant applications for successful School of Physical Therapy Technology Enhanced Learning grant, 2 Dr. Carolee Winstein Visiting Lecturer grants, 2 Dr. Michel Landry Visiting Lecturer grants, Dr. Kelly O'Brien Visiting Lecturer Grant, and Dr. Carol Davis College of Medicine Visiting Lecturer grant.
• Children's Hospital Foundation of Saskatchewan grant for "The Building Blocks of Early Intervention" pediatric course.
• Co-recipient of Interprofessional Health Collaborative of Saskatchewan grant for Interprofessional Management of Diabetes and its Complications conference.

Initiative #2 Marketing

1.  Dissemination of Information:  ONGOING.  The CPTE website has been redone and all methods of communication are now electronic with the exception of registration. We may do a survey at a later date to evaluate the effectiveness of the electronic communication. 

2.  Course Planning:  Courses on preventative and primary health care for 2009 and 2010:  ACHIEVED AND ONGOING.  Pelvi-perineal Rehabilitation (2009) and the Advanced course (2010), Women's Health Updates, Geriatric Health Updates, the Ankle-Brachial Index/Ultrasound Doppler course, and Updates and Advances in Cardiovascular Physical Therapy had components of preventative or primary health care.  In addition, the pelvic floor and Doppler content included areas of increased growth in physical therapy services. 

3.  Newsletter coverage of new course formats:  ACHIEVED.

4. Assessment of Knowledge Translation following courses:  ONGOING.  We are working with CPL and CNE to design and implement evaluations for the Interprofessional Management of Diabetes conference that will be completed prior to and after the conference, to investigate change in learning and practice habits as a result of the conference.  We plan to submit our findings to a continuing education journal.

Initiative #3:  Identification of Partnerships External to Physical Therapy

 1.  Interdisciplinary Programming:  ACHIEVED AND ONGOING.

• Courses open to OT in 2009 and 2010: Stroke Teleconference, Mary Massery course, Interdisciplinary Headache Conference, Geriatric Health Updates course, Vestibular Rehabilitation course, Research for Future - Moving Physical Therapy Forward, Global Health Disparities videostream, Falls Prevention Videostream, The Building Blocks of Early Intervention, Tai Chi for Rehab Professionals, Interprofessional Management of Diabetes and its Complications conference, ABI and Doppler Ultrasound.
• Courses open to SLP in 2009 and 2010: Mary Massery course, Stroke teleconference, The Building Blocks of Early Intervention.
• Some courses have also been open to the following disciplines: Nursing, Kinesiology, Exercise Therapy, Pharmacy, Nutrition, Psychology, Medicine, Chiropractic, Massage Therapy and others.

Initiative #4:  Accessibility of Professional Development

1.  Videostreaming:  ACHIEVED.  3 videostream learning sessions have been released to date.

2.  Online Introduction to Systematic Reviews:  The first iteration of this online graduate level course through the School of Physical Therapy completed successfully in April 2010 with 7 registrants.

3.  Level 5 of the Orthopedic Syllabus has been offered in part via distance learning this year with Elluminate, a web conferencing service which allows video, online written and verbal chat, and Power Point technology. Registrants from Saskatoon, Regina and Winnipeg are taking part in this programming.

4.  Mentorship Focus Group:  ONGOING-deferred.  Elluminate technology will also be useful for small focused mentorship groups.  This would be a distance learning initiative.  We plan to continue investigating this for possible use in early 2011.