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Western PT Catchment Area and Placements


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Kitchener is pretty much the end point to the east. The catchment area goes as south as Windsor, as north as Owen sound, and everything in between and west. You can do a placement in the GTA, but they only have about 7 spots open for the school/year that you must let the clinical director at the school know. Basically you say yes I want to do the GTA within the first few weeks, your name goes into a hat with the rest of the students in first year who say they want the GTA and if you get your name drawn, great you get to do one placement in the GTA at some point, if you’re not drawn, uNfortunately that’s your only shot and you won’t be allowed to do a GTA placement for the entirety of the program. The reason the spots are so few and far between is because you are essentially encroaching on the U of T PT students territory and lessening their opportunity for their placements in their catchment area. It would be similar to the U of T PT students wanting to do a placement in London, they take away placements from Western students essentially. This may not even be in effect for the current year because of COVID-19 because placements are even fewer in choice than before. 
 

Hopefully that answers your question! 

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