Major Field of Study (MFS)

Major Field of Study (MFS)
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370-441 - Health Professions and Related Technologies

421-424 - Rehabilitation Medicine

421 - Rehabilitation - General

Both a professional and paraprofessional program of studies concerned with training personnel and professionals to restore mentally, physically or emotionally disabled persons to their maximum level of function and independence. The types of settings in which rehabilitation medicine is practiced include developmental day care, hospitals, residential, recreational, vocational and educational services.

  • Example Program Names:

    • Medical Rehabilitation
    • Rehabilitation
    • Rehabilitation Medicine
    • Rehabilitation Practitioner
    • Rehabilitation Services

422 - Speech Language Pathology

Training program designed for clinical audiologists and speech-language pathologists to work in hospitals, clinics, private agencies, schools and health units to provide communicatively impaired individuals with professional services. The study involves knowledge of the physiological and psychological organization of language, and other aspects such as phonetics, phonology and semantics.

  • Example Program Names:

    • Audiology
    • Audiology and Speech Pathology
    • Communication Disorders
    • Communicative Disorders
    • Hearing Impairment
    • Speech Language Pathology
    • Speech Pathology
    • Speech Pathology and Audiology
    • Speech Science
    • Speech Therapy

423 - Occupational and Physical Therapy

Occupational therapy is a training program for professionals and other staff to deliver and implement rehabilitative programs for persons injured or disabled in their jobs. Physical therapy is a training program for health service personnel to restore health and activity to injured or disabled persons. Some of the techniques entail the use of heat, water, cold, ice, sound and electricity as well as assistive devices and artificial limbs.

  • Example Program Names:

    • Music Therapy
    • Occupational Therapy
    • Physical and Occupational Therapy
    • Physical Therapy
    • Physio - Occupational Therapy
    • Sports Medicine
    • Therapeutic Recreation
    • Therapy

424 - Physiotherapy

(NOTE: Physiotherapy is an alternative term to Physical Therapy; graduates recorded in this category are persons who cited entries under Physiotherapy or its elements.) Program of studies designed to train persons eligible to practice as licensed physiotherapists in a variety of settings, including hospitals, rehabilitation centres, extended care units, special schools, local government agencies, industrial health units, sports clubs and private clinics.

  • Example Program Names:

    • Athletic Therapist
    • Physio Therapist
    • Physiotherapy
    • Science Physiotherapy
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