Student Rehabilitation Outpatient Clinic

Student Rehabilitation The Student Rehabilitation Outpatient Clinic is a Outpatient partnership between the Fraser Health Clinic Location Authority and the University of British Columbia, Faculty of Medicine (Department Clinic The Student Rehabilitation Outpatient Clinic is of Physical Therapy) located at:

Surrey Memorial Hospital 13750 96 Avenue Surrey, BC V3V 1Z2

Clinic hours of operation are 0730 to 1700.

The clinic is located in the Physiotherapy Department on the 1st floor of Building B.

To learn more about the Master of Physical Therapy Program at UBC please visit:

www.physicaltherapy.med.ubc.ca

To learn more about Fraser Health please visit: At Surrey Memorial Hospital

www.fraserhealth.ca

The Clinic The Clients

The Student Rehabilitation Outpatient The patient population for this clinic is diverse, In addition to UBC placements the clinic offers Clinic is located at Surrey Memorial Hospital in providing opportunities to develop skills in areas clinical placements to Out-of-Province students Surrey, British Columbia. This clinic provides a of musculoskeletal, neurologic and respiratory year round. Students may be accepted on unique experience for Physical Therapy rehabilitation. Clients followed in the clinic may placement in the clinic at any level of their PT students. The clinic is run in partnership with include (but are not limited to) clients with the education. Requests to place students in the clinic the University of British Columbia, Department following: may be made in the usual way, through UBC. of Physical Therapy (Faculty of Medicine) and  acute neurological conditions or exacerbation of the Fraser Health Authority. neurological condition (e.g., recent CVA,

exacerbation of MS) The goal of the Student Rehabilitation For more information please contact: Outpatient Clinic is to improve functional  recent discharge home from hospital with outcomes of clients, improve patient flow ongoing issues (e.g., elderly patients with Sue Murphy through the health care system, and reduce balance issues, poor physical conditioning) Associate Head, Clinical Education future hospital admissions or increased level of  complex chronic disease, either neurological UBC Department of Physical Therapy care of clients. The clinic may also provide an musculoskeletal, or multisystem [email protected] opportunity for research and continuous quality  increased risk for falls improvement.  recent total joint arthroplasty, recent

orthopedic or general surgery Physiotherapy outpatient services are provided by up to six students at once. The students will  recent amputation be working in a currently functioning Outpatient  respiratory conditions and exacerbations of Physiotherapy Department, providing the respiratory conditions Fraser Health has been working hard over the opportunity to work in a busy clinical setting past few years to guide the development of alongside a dynamic group of Physiotherapists. Clients who qualify for the clinic will be referred the 20-acre Surrey Memorial Hospital site The students are supervised by an experienced by emergency departments, acute and sub-acute into a world-class health campus and model Clinical Instructor at all times. hospital sites, home health and local physicians. medical community that serves the entire The goal of the service is to support hospital Fraser Health region. Surrey Memorial The potential 6:1 student to Clinical Instructor discharge, and assist patients to achieve ratio will provide an opportunity for innovative functional goals that will enable them to remain Hospital is now home to Canada’s second peer learning while providing important hands- in their home and community. largest and the busiest Emergency on clinical experience. Students participating in Department in British Columbia with over this clinic are encouraged to use a reciprocal 77,000 patient visits per year. The site will peer coaching approach which will provide open its doors to a new Critical Care Tower in opportunities for both professional and team June 2014, further supporting the FH vision. development.

The clinic will also provide valuable The hospital is located within walking distance interprofessional learning experiences through to Sky Train (Expo line). There is a hospital integration of sessions with the interdisciplinary shuttle available at the King George station, if outpatient Community REDi (Rehabilitation needed. Early Discharge) program.