Purpose: Our purpose was to determine advanced manual and manipulative physiotherapists' (AMPTs') current use and awareness of continuing education (CE) opportunities; to establish their perceived CE needs by identifying facilitators and barriers to participation; and to explore the association of demographics with CE needs. Methods: A questionnaire was e-mailed to 456 registered members of the Canadian Academy of Manipulative Physiotherapy. Data analyses using frequencies and percentages of total responses and t-tests for group comparisons were performed. Results: One hundred thirty-three (29.2%) participants responded. Most lived in an urban region and worked predominantly in direct patient care. More respondents reported engaging in informal CE than in formal CE. Hands-on or practical workshops were the preferred CE format. Common barriers to CE included professional commitments and cost and time of travel; facilitators included interest in the topic and increasing knowledge and competency. AMPTs with less physical therapy experience found cost to be a greater barrier and were more interested in mentorship programs and CE as a means to obtain credentials. Conclusions: AMPTs' preferred CE formats are inconsistent with the CE opportunities in which they participate. CE initiatives for AMPTs should include hands-on training and should account for time and cost to make CE opportunities more readily available to them.Key Words: education, continuing; musculoskeletal manipulations; physical therapy modalities. RÉ SUMÉObjectif : É tablir l'utilisation actuelle et le degré de sensibilisation des physiothé rapeutes spé cialisé s en thé rapie manuelle et manipulation (AMPT) des possibilité s de formation continue (FC); é tablir les besoins en formation continue perc¸us de cette clientè le en identifiant les é lé ments facilitateurs et les obstacles à leur participation à la FC; et explorer les possibles associations entre les donné es dé mographiques et les besoins en FC. Mé thode : Un questionnaire a é té envoyé aux 456 membres inscrits à l'Acadé mie canadienne de thé rapie manuelle. Des analyses des donné es à l'aide de fré quences et de pourcentages du nombre total de ré pondants et des tests t pour la comparaison des groupes ont é té ré alisé s. Ré sultats : Au total, 133 participants (29,2 %) ont ré pondu. La plupart vivaient en milieu urbain et travaillaient principalement à des soins directs aux patients. Un plus grand nombre de ré pondants ont dit participer à de la FC informelle et non à de la FC plus officielle. Les ateliers pratiques sont la formule privilé gié e pour la FC. Les principaux obstacles à la FC sont les engagements professionnels, de mê me que les coû ts et le temps de dé placement; parmi les é lé ments facilitateurs, citons l'inté rê t pour les sujets abordé s et la possibilité d'accroître ses connaissances et ses compé tences. Les physiothé rapeutes moins expé rimenté s ont mentionné les coû ts de la FC comme é tant pour eux un plus grand obstacle, et se sont dits plus inté ressé s par...
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