The Peer Review Team
The Peer Review Team is made up of physiotherapy educators, physiotherapy regulators (or we have regulation knowledge/experience) and accreditors from other professions. Once they have joined the pool of peer reviewers, they are contacted when they are needed for an accreditation review. If personal or professional commitments mean that they are unavailable when they are contacted, then they can decline the opportunity and ask to be contacted again in the future.
Each four-person accreditation team (called a Peer Review Team or PRT) includes two physiotherapy educators, one member with regulatory knowledge/experience and one external reviewer who is not a physiotherapist.
What Reviewers Offer
Each PRT member brings valuable experience, expertise and perspective to the team. The two educators are peers of those being accredited.
They have experience in the academic environment and in physiotherapy curriculum. They also have accreditation experience as members of education programs which have been participants in an accreditation process.
The external accreditor has experience in accreditation of a different profession, and so is able to provide a unique perspective as an outsider to the profession of physiotherapy. The role of the regulatory member on the team is to ensure that the competency of graduates is being assessed and that the public is protected in part as a result of the accreditation process.
