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Regarding Removal of the 3,000 hour Basis of Accreditation Requirement The Board of Directors of the CMTBC at a Special Board meeting voted to eliminate the 3000hour length requirement from our Basis of Accreditation. This change means that massage therapy programs in British Columbia will base their curriculum on our educational documents without adhering to a pre specified time constraint. Many of our registrants have questions pertaining to this issue and we have attempted to respond to all of their inquiries. Please see the following for our responses. Did the Board ignore the Resolutions of the registrants at the 2009 AGM requesting that the 3000 hours requirement be maintained? The Board did not ignore the resolution of the registrants at the 2009 AGM; in fact the Board took the resolution in to consideration when deliberating whether or not to remove the 3,000 hour requirement. Does the Board obtain legal advice as to whether it is lawful to proceed with controversial decisions proposed by way of a Request For Board Decision? The CMTBC board of directors seeks legal advice any time it is proceeding on what might be considered a controversial decision. Based on advice received, the Board was satisfied that it was entitled to consider the request, and that, if persuaded by all of the information available, to conclude that the public interest did not coincide with the Registrants’ interests as reflected in the resolution. Will the removal of the 3000 mandatory hours requirement for BC accredited massage therapy schools lower the educational standards for B.C. educated massage therapists? No. The removal of the 3,000 hour requirement for BC accredited massage therapy programs will not lower the educational standards. This decision does not affect the curriculum offered by the schools and the education required of their graduates. These standards are set by other requirements of the Basis of Accreditation and by the requirement of the schools to teach to the Occupational Competency Profile (OCP) and the Guidelines for Foundational Knowledge (GFK) in Massage Therapy Educational Programs. These two documents continue to be the standard to which BC accredited schools are required to teach. Are other health professions’ schools in B.C. accredited by their regulatory body? No. Other health professions are accredited in a variety of ways, some of them by national independent organizations and some by independent provincial organizations. The CMTBC has had discussions with other provinces to try to establish a similar process for our profession. ?

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Regarding Removal of the 3,000-‐hour Basis of Accreditation

Requirement

The Board of Directors of the CMTBC at a Special Board meeting voted to eliminate the 3000-‐hour

length requirement from our Basis of Accreditation. This change means that massage therapy programs in British Columbia will base their curriculum on our educational documents without adhering to a pre-‐

specified time constraint.

Many of our registrants have questions pertaining to this issue and we have attempted to respond to all of

their inquiries. Please see the following for our responses.

Did the Board ignore the Resolutions of the registrants at the 2009 AGM requesting that the 3000 hours requirement be maintained?The Board did not ignore the resolution of the registrants at the 2009 AGM; in fact the Board took the resolution in to consideration when deliberating whether or not to remove the 3,000 hour requirement.

Does the Board obtain legal advice as to whether it is lawful to proceed with controversial decisions proposed by way of a Request For Board Decision?The CMTBC board of directors seeks legal advice any time it is proceeding on what might be considered a controversial decision. Based on advice received, the Board was satisfied that it was entitled to consider the request, and that, if persuaded by all of the information available, to conclude that the public interest did not coincide with the Registrants’ interests as reflected in the resolution.

Will the removal of the 3000 mandatory hours requirement for BC accredited massage therapy schools lower the educational standards for B.C. educated massage therapists?No. The removal of the 3,000 hour requirement for BC accredited massage therapy programs will not lower the educational standards. This decision does not affect the curriculum offered by the schools and the education required of their graduates. These standards are set by other requirements of the Basis of Accreditation and by the requirement of the schools to teach to the Occupational Competency Profile (OCP) and the Guidelines for Foundational Knowledge (GFK) in Massage Therapy Educational Programs. These two documents continue to be the standard to which BC accredited schools are required to teach.

Are other health professions’ schools in B.C. accredited by their regulatory body? No. Other health professions are accredited in a variety of ways, some of them by national independent organizations and some by independent provincial organizations. The CMTBC has had discussions with other provinces to try to establish a similar process for our profession. ?