4th SPA Visioning Workshop 2010
Transforming Today’s Physiotherapy for Tomorrow

The Singapore Physiotherapy Association (SPA) will be having the 4th Visioning Workshop from 10th to 11th April 2010. The workshop is themed

’SPA Visioning 2010: Transforming Today’s Physiotherapy for Tomorrow’.

The SPA conducts a Visioning Workshop every 5 years to chart the directions and focus of the SPA and the physiotherapy profession in Singapore. This year’s Visioning Workshop is aimed to;

1) Explore the various needs of the Singapore population as well as the Physiotherapy profession itself
2) Explore the strategies to meet these needs.
3) Outline the new challenges facing our profession, especially in terms of registration and recruitment

For effective Visioning, we would need you along with other physiotherapy members to participate in this workshop, where your opinions, suggestion and ideas will be able to contribute the aims of the Workshop. As the physiotherapy profession and numbers have grown and will be growing further in Singapore, we need physiotherapists from all areas and settings to come in and share their ideas, especially the community and private settings.

We have also invited guests, Mr Jonathan Kruger, Manager of Policy and Professional Standards Division in the Australian Physiotherapy Association, and Dr Margot Skinner, AWP executive member of WCPT from New Zealand. They will be able to share with us how their professions and associations grew, as well as the challenges and experiences with registration of the profession.

We sincerely hope to see you at the workshop, as the time have come for physiotherapists in Singapore to gather and map out our future directions.

We look forward to seeing you at the Visioning Workshop! Please register with Prema at spa_admission@yahoo.com.sg. Should you need to get in touch with us, please do not hesitate to call our administrator at (65) 97957535.

Thank you.

Yours sincerely,
Dr Celia Tan
President and Chairperson
Organising Committee
Singapore Physiotherapy Association

 

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7th Pan-Pacific Conference on Rehabilitation
The 7th Pan-Pacific Conference on Rehabilitation with the theme “Mind, Brain and Body”, jointly organized with The Hong Kong College of Family Physicians, will be held in The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong on 23 - 24 Oct 2010. There is 10% discount for SPA member on the registration. For more information, please go to http://www.rs.polyu.edu.hk/ppcr/ or click here for the conference announcement and the registration form.

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7th Interdisciplinary World Congress
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