Allied Health Professional Development Fund
The Allied Health Professional Development Fund (AHPDF) is an educational fund that has been made available for Respiratory Therapists through HealthForceOntario. Members of the CRTO who are eligible to practice in Ontario are able to apply for up to $1,500 to reimburse the cost of professional development activities (workshops, courses, conferences). To meet the funding criteria, the activity must be completed between April 1, 2009 and March 31, 2010 and should lend itself to the overall goal of enhanced patient care.
All Members of the College should have received paper copies of the AHPDF application form in the mail. For additional information, you may also go onto the web site at www.ahpdf.ca. To view the Application Guide and print off additional application forms please see below. You must submit one course per application but may submit more than one application during the funding year. In order to ensure that this funding continues to be made available, we strongly encourage that you make use of this educational opportunity.
In addition, HealthForceOntario has directed funds through the AHPDF to a three-year subscription to an Electronic Library . This library is available to all eligible RTs and provides full text articles through EBSCO Host (Medline, Cumulative Index for Nursing & Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) and Sport Discus). In order to utilize this service you must first sign up through the AHPDF web site at www.ahpdf.ca.