Student Resources | School of Rehabilitation Therapy

SAFETY

Campus Security and Emergency Services can be contacted at any time for personal safety issues, crime, insecure premises, Safe Walk and Lone Worker

24-Hour Crisis Line and Other Mental Health Crisis Resources for Kingston & Area

The Walk Home program is a service provided by the Alma Mater Society that offers safe walks to students, both on the Queen’s campus and within the Kingston community

HEALTH and WELLNESS

Student Wellness Services (SWS) offers confidential health care, including mental health services. https://www.queensu.ca/studentwellness/

Mental Health Care for comprehensive information on mental health and wellness resources.

https://www.queensu.ca/studentwellness/mental-health/scope-services

Therapy Groups https://www.queensu.ca/studentwellness/groups-events-trainings

Good2Talk offers free, confidential support services for post-secondary students in Ontario

As a Physical Therapy (graduate) student, you have coverage for some medical and dental expenses through the Queen’s University SGPS Health & Dental Insurance Plan. Queen's students are automatically enrolled into this supplementary health insurance plan that provides partial coverage for health, vision, dental, and travel.

ACADEMIC SUCCESS

Academic Success https://sass.queensu.ca

Academic Success – Calendar of Events https://sass.queensu.ca/event-calendar

Queen’s Student Accessibility Services Queen's Student Accessibility Services (QSAS), in collaboration with instructors and staff, is committed to supporting students with disabilities as they pursue their academic goals

Queen’s Student Accessibility Services - Accommodations- One of the roles of the Queen's Student Accessibility Service (QSAS) is to determine accommodation plans for students with disabilities.

https://www.queensu.ca/studentwellness/policies#academic-accommodations-policy

Library Services https://library.queensu.ca/help-services/services-graduate-students

FINANCIAL AID SERVICES OFFICE

The Financial Aid Services Office administers a comprehensive range of financial aid programs to assist students in financing their Queen’s education. Explore options from Government Student Financial Aid to Queen's scholarships, bursaries, and work programs available to students based on eligibility criteria.

Student Financial Advising https://www.queensu.ca/registrar/financial-aid

In addition to Government Student Financial Aid, current students may be eligible to apply for Queen's General Bursary and the Work Study program for need-based assistance

Specific Student Groups – there are financial aid options available to student athletes, Queen's alumnae, mature women students, Indigenous students, Black and racialized students and for First Generation students

EQUITY, DIVERSITY, INCLUSION, INDIGENEITY AND ACCESSIBILITY

The School of Rehabilitation Therapy has an Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, Indigeneity and Accessibility (EDIIA) committee to guide and coordinate recommendations and strategies to promote EDIIA in education, research, and clinical care. The School’s EDIIA committee aligns it’s work with the strategic priorities related to strategy for commitment to EDIIA from Queen’s Health Sciences.

The School’s committee has a student representative who liaises communication between students and the committee, and promotes opportunities for students to participate in the co-creation a more equitable and inclusive experience within the School of Rehabilitation Therapy.

FAITH AND SPIRITUAL LIFE

Queen’s University Faith and Spiritual Life offers multi-faith, non-judgmental support for religious, spiritual, personal, and financial problems, concerns or crises. As part of Student Affairs, Faith and Spiritual Life strives to facilitate a welcoming, peaceful, and safe space. Chaplains can also provide support, ceremonial services, interfaith community development and spiritual support to students, faculty, and staff.

REHABILITATION THERAPY STUDENT SOCIETY

http://www.rehabsociety.ca/about-us.html

SEXUAL GENDER AND DIVERSITY - Queen's Resources provide resources, promotes equity and challenges discrimination.

The Yellow House is a safe, comfortable, and accountable space for queer, racialized, marginalized students to create community, to feel empowered, to empower others, and to celebrate and to honour their histories. Yellow House seeks to engage students in initiatives that actively dismantle oppressive, racist, and colonial ideologies and practices.
The Sexual Violence Prevention and Response Service provides confidential, trauma informed and non-judgmental support for any student who has experienced sexual violence at any time in their life

INTERPROFESSIONAL EDUCATION

“Interprofessional education occurs when students from two or more professions learn about, from and with each other to enable effective collaboration and improve health outcomes." (World Health Organization, 2010).

Interprofessional education in Queen’s Health Sciences (QHS) and the Physical Therapy Program is an essential part of your education to develop the skills, knowledge, vales and core competencies needed for collaboration in health care. The QHS Strategic Plan for Radical Collaboration aims for 20% of health professions education to be done through interprofessional education.

In the Physical Therapy Program, interprofessional learning events are integrated into the Professionalism, Leadership, Collaboration and Management (PCLM) series of courses. Sessions within the School of Rehabilitation Therapy will take place with Occupational Therapy students. You will also participate in interprofessional education sessions with students across health sciences, such as nursing, medicine, in faculty-wide sessions.

SUPPORT SERVICES FOR INDIGENOUS STUDENTS

There are two main hubs on campus for Indigenous students. The Four Directions Indigenous Student Centre is a place to meet fellow Indigenous students in the community, offering cultural programming and organizations to join. Their website highlights the importance of self-identification, which is a voluntary and confidential process. The Office of Indigenous Initiatives (OII) advances reconciliation/conciliation, integrating Indigenous ways of knowing and being into life at Queen’s. Led by Associate Vice-Principal (Indigenous Initiatives and Reconciliation) Kanonhsyonne (Janice Hill), the office coordinates academic initiatives and student assistance. Their website includes programs, funding opportunities and initiatives highlighting the important processes of decolonizing and indigenizing.

TUITION AND FEES

https://www.queensu.ca/registrar/tuition-fees/graduate

CAMPUS BOOKSTORE

Please click here to visit the Campus Bookstore website. You can use its textbook search engine to create a list of all your required and recommended texts and course manuals. All you need to know are your course numbers.

The following manuals are available for downloading. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view these files. If you do not have this software, you may download for free from the Adobe website.

HscELP

The Health Sciences Experiential Learning Program (HscELP) offers after-hours clinical education and skill development practice sessions in their simulated clinical learning centres. Queen's Health Sciences (QHS) students from the MD Program, School of Nursing, and School of Rehabilitation Therapy are able to consolidate their learning outside of class time by practicing assessments with their peers. These practice sessions are designed to provide a quiet and focused environment. (HscELP) ensures responsible use of our centre's space and resources through the following:

“Minimum Enrolment. A minimum of 10 participants must be enrolled for the session to take place. Registration numbers will be reviewed one week prior to the practice date and sessions with low enrolment rates will be cancelled.
Session Commitment. Only sign up for practice sessions that you are able to commit to attending. Attendance will be recorded.
No Food or Drink. Consumption of food and drink in pod rooms or observation corridors is prohibited. Students are instead encouraged to enjoy their refreshments in the main lobby or corridor outside of the centre doors.
Zero Footprint. Practice sessions are only feasible when they operate on a 'zero footprint' basis. That means linens, consummables (i.e. tongue depressors, cotton balls, paper clips), Standardized Participants, and Volunteer Patients will not be available.
Staying Updated. Confirmation, cancellation, or timing updates of practice sessions will be communicated with each program's student representatives.*”

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