Ontario Sports & Athletic Therapist Association is an Athletic Therapy Ontario® Registered Trade Name
OSTA WELCOMES AT GRADS & STUDENTS
You've made an important decision to apply your athletic passion to a career choice by choosing to study or to advance your studies as an Ontario Athletic Therapist.
Build a network. Find a mentor. Gain work experience with your Ontario AT peers. Join fellow Therapists on the Frontline of Sports Medicine. Join OSTA.
The journey to professional good standing starts as a student, continues through candidacy to confirm entry-to-practice skills, and culminates in the achievement of essential competencies aligned with a provincial practice licence and defined scope of practice. It's best experienced in a professional community. Since health care is defined and delivered provincially, becoming part of your provincial professional association builds your network, helps you find mentors, and turns peers into partners as you progress in your career in sports medicine.
We welcome you.
STUDENTS
STUDENT
Enrolled in a post-secondary degree program recognized as relevant to the accepted pathway to study Athletic Therapy and to become an Athletic Therapist as acknowledged by the Board of Directors, who has applied for membership, or for renewal of membership, as a Student Member.
Student Members have all of the privileges of membership in the Corporation, but may not vote at any Members’ Meeting, or be elected to the Board of Directors.
CANDIDATES
CANDIDATE
Anyone who is eligible, and who intends, to challenge the next available certification examination or examinations designated by the Board of Directors, who satisfies whatever additional criteria may be set by the Board of Directors and has applied for membership, or for renewal of membership, as a Certified Candidate Member.
Certified Candidate Members have all of the privileges of membership in the Corporation, but may not vote at any Members’ Meeting, or be elected to the Board of Directors.
CERTIFIED
CERTIFIED
Anyone who has successfully challenged a certification examination or examinations that have been designated by the Board of Directors, who satisfies whatever other criteria that may be set by the certification body for maintenance of said certification, who practises Athletic Therapy in Ontario and satisfies whatever additional criteria may be set by the Board of Directors and who applies to the Board of Directors for membership, or for renewal of membership, as a Certified Member. Certified Members have all of the privileges of membership in the Corporation.
OUT OF PROVINCE
OUT OF PROVINCE
Anyone who satisfies the criteria for membership as a Certified Member, but practises exclusively or principally in another Province or Territory and is not regularly domiciled in Ontario, and who has applied for membership, or for renewal of membership, as an Out-of-Province Member.
Out-of-Province Members have all of the privileges of membership in the Corporation, but may not vote at any Members’ Meeting, or be elected to the Board of Directors
BENEFITS
OSTA offers Members a number of discounted services and benefits. Check out the top-listed below and visit the Member Benefits page.
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