Teaching physiotherapy students onsite at Baycrest has numerous benefits: students gain valuable clinical
experience and provide hands-on assistance to staff; and staff keep up-to-date with current research and
techniques and hone their teaching and communication skills.
All of this impacts positively on client care, introduces future physiotherapists to working with older adults,
and facilitates the recruitment of potential Baycrest staff.
By the end of the academic year, more than 30 students from the University of Toronto's Master of Science
in Physical Therapy program and the occupational therapy/physiotherapy assistant diploma programs at
Humber and Centennial Colleges will have completed placements at Baycrest.
Staff have received a number of awards for teaching excellence over the years and most recently were
recognized with the Humber School of Health Sciences award for Excellence in Education and Preceptorship,
and the University of Toronto Physiotherapy Teaching Award.
"Teaching students allows us to explain the rationale behind treatment plans, helps with our scheduling
and treatment of patients and improves patient care," says physiotherapist Tina Wells-Rowsell, who
works on the High Tolerance Rehab unit.
Rehabilitation Sciences represents one of the numerous disciplines that benefits from the onsite training of
students by Baycrest staff.
Onsite clinical teaching
benefits Physiotherapy
students and staff
(pictured above): Physiotherapist Myrna Benderoff (right) teaches student
Varsha Ahir (left) how to adjust the height of a walker.
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