Becoming a prosthetist or orthotist in Canada: a four-year degree, a two-year accredited program at BCIT or George Brown College, a 3,450-hour paid residency under a certified practitioner, and the CBCPO written and practical examinations. No provincial licence, but funders require certification. Administrative process only.
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This guide covers one thing: how a person becomes a prosthetist or orthotist in Canada, meaning a clinician who assesses patients and designs, fits, and evaluates artificial limbs and braces. A prosthetist works with prostheses, artificial limbs that replace a missing limb. An orthotist works with orthoses, braces and splints that support, align, prevent, or correct a limb or the spine. Many clinicians practise in one discipline first and add the second later; the certification pathway treats each discipline separately, and this guide says so wherever the distinction matters. The work is clinical and technical at once: patient assessment and treatment planning, hands-on measurement and shape capture, design and fabrication decisions, fitting and follow-up, and collaboration with physicians, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, nurses, and the technicians who fabricate devices. ALIS Alberta, whose occupation profile was updated March 31, 2025, lists the settings as private clinics, community health centres, rehabilitation centres, and hospitals, with some employers expecting travel to hospitals or clients' homes, and notes the physical side of the work: assisting patients with limited mobility, bending, stretching, standing, kneeling, and reaching, lifting over 20 kilograms, and wearing safety equipment when using grinding and heating machinery. This guide gives general process information only and is not legal or medical advice. It states no view on whether any reader qualifies. Where a figure, a prerequisite, or a step could not be verified on an official, program, or OPC page, the guide says so plainly and names the page to confirm it on, rather than filling the gap from a secondary summary. Recheck date: 1 May 2027. On that date, recheck the ALIS Alberta profile, the Job Bank requirements page, the OPC Accredited Programs and Examinations pages, and the George Brown College and BCIT program pages named in Sources, and confirm that every figure carried here still appears there.
One classification warning belongs at the start. Job Bank groups prosthetists, orthotists, prosthetic and orthotic technicians, dietary technicians, and ocularists together under NOC 32129, Other medical technologists and technicians, and its requirements page states the requirements for all of them together. The shared code does not make them one occupation, and the requirements stated for dietary technicians or ocularists on that page do not transfer to prosthetists and orthotists. Read the prosthetist and orthotist lines of that page only, and read the program pages, the ALIS profiles, and the OPC pages for everything else. The same caution applies to the NOC summary wording itself: Job Bank states a two-year college program and three years of supervised practical training, while the operative OPC pathway described by the schools and by ALIS is a two-year accredited clinical program plus a 3,450-hour residency. Where the summary and the pathway differ, this guide follows the pathway and says so.
The distinction matters before any application, because the two prosthetics and orthotics programs at George Brown College share a building and a name, and because career summaries routinely merge the clinician and technician roles. A prosthetist or orthotist is the clinician: they assess the patient, take the history, judge mobility, strength, and endurance, develop the treatment plan, and take responsibility for the fit and function of the finished device, designing and making devices themselves or collaborating with technicians. A prosthetic or orthotic technician is the fabrication specialist: they make, assemble, service, and repair devices from cast positives, assessment forms, or computer-aided design and manufacturing, working with thermoplastics, resins, metal alloys, leather, and carbon composites at a workbench, under the clinical team's direction. The technician route has its own OPC pathway, the Internship Program, toward Registered Technician status, described in the second FAQ. The clinician route is the subject of this guide. If the work that appeals is bench fabrication, materials, and machinery, the technician program is the relevant path. If the work that appeals is patient assessment, treatment planning, and fitting, this guide is the path. Do not enrol in either program on the assumption that it qualifies the graduate for the other role.
The respiratory therapy and perfusion lines are drawn in the first FAQ and are worth stating here in one sentence each. Respiratory therapy is cardiopulmonary care in hospitals, entered through a three-year program and provincial registration; perfusion is operating the heart-lung machine during surgery, entered through a postgraduate program and a society certification examination. Neither is a route into prosthetics and orthotics, and no official page states shared coursework or credit between them and this pathway.
The clinical programs are post-degree programs, and the degree comes first. George Brown College states the requirement directly: applicants to Clinical Methods in Orthotics/Prosthetics must have a four-year B.Sc. degree from an accredited institution, and a four-year degree in engineering or kinesiology will be considered. ALIS Alberta describes the same starting point in general terms: most often, students complete a four-year undergraduate degree in a related field, such as kinesiology or engineering, followed by the two-year clinical program. Orthotics Prosthetics Canada's page on the coming Master of Science entry requirement likewise describes the existing pathway as an undergraduate degree followed by a two-year program at an accredited school. No official page states a single approved list of undergraduate majors beyond the examples above, and no official page states required undergraduate courses or a grade threshold for either clinical program, so confirm the degree the program being applied to will accept, including whether a degree in another science or health field counts, on that program's admissions page before applying. A related degree is not a guarantee of admission: both programs are highly competitive, with far more applications than places, as Orthotics Prosthetics Canada states, and each program runs its own selection process, described in Step 3. While completing the degree, the useful preparation the program pages name is science grounding in anatomy, biomechanics, and related subjects, which the George Brown entrance examination tests, and any direct patient-care or workshop experience the applicant can honestly describe; no official page states a required number of volunteer or work hours before admission, so no such figure is stated here.
There are two clinical programs in Canada, and Orthotics Prosthetics Canada states the point directly: there are two Clinical Methods in Prosthetics and Orthotics programs in Canada that are required to become a Certified Orthotist or a Certified Prosthetist, graduation from one of them is one step of the credentialing process, each program is two years in length, and graduates can enter a residency on completion. No other Canadian clinical program is named on any official page in this guide's sources, and no official page states a distance, online-only, or out-of-country route into Canadian certification. Each program below is stated only from its own program page or from the OPC and ALIS pages, with the gaps named rather than filled.
George Brown College, in Toronto, offers Clinical Methods in Orthotics/Prosthetics (S407), a two-year full-time graduate certificate program taught at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre by faculty currently working in the field, in a joint program with Sunnybrook and other facilities. Classes start in September only; international, part-time, winter, and summer start options are not available. Applications must be submitted to Ontario Colleges by February 1 of each year. The program trains students to make and fit prostheses and orthoses, through theory, laboratory, and clinical experience under certified prosthetists and orthotists at Sunnybrook, Ron Joyce Children's Health Centre in Hamilton, Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital, The Hospital for Sick Children, and private facilities. Students attend core courses in anatomy, biomechanics, prosthetic and orthotic clinical theory, case study seminars, professional issues, additive manufacturing digital workflows, and research, according to Orthotics Prosthetics Canada. Selection has two steps: an online entrance examination covering biology including anatomy, physiology, and pathology, biophysics and biomechanics, spatial relations, and prosthetics and orthotics knowledge, followed by an online video interview for the top-ranked applicants, who may also be asked for two letters of reference. The program accepts eight students. The program follows a co-operative curriculum model with McMaster University's Master of Science program in Rehabilitation Science: students who elect to pursue both credentials are responsible for all fees at both institutions. Confirm the current selection dates, reference requirements, and tuition figure on the program page, because the dates shown on the program page belong to a past selection cycle and the tuition figures shown there were inconsistent.
The British Columbia Institute of Technology, in Burnaby, offers a two-year Prosthetics and Orthotics diploma. Orthotics Prosthetics Canada describes the program as a blend of science, art, technology, and clinical patient care, combining lectures, labs, and practical experience, equipping graduates to perform assessments, set patient goals, design treatment plans, fabricate individualized devices, select materials, and provide patient-focused care, with regular interaction with volunteer patients as simulated patient models, weekly three-hour clinical rotations, two four-week clinical practicums at clinics across Canada, and an in-depth capstone research project. The western provinces of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba jointly fund the program, and Orthotics Prosthetics Canada states BCIT accepts applications every second year on a pro-rated basis from each of the four provinces and accepts 14 students per intake, although the Manitoba Orthotics and Prosthetics Association page states 12 new students every second year. BCIT states that its graduates must independently seek out their own paid, two-year residency and start logging residency hours through Orthotics Prosthetics Canada, and that its partnership with McMaster University opens the door for qualified students to earn a Master of Science in Rehabilitation Science through distance and online learning while completing the diploma. BCIT's own entry list is not stated here. ALIS Alberta states entrance requirements for both clinical programs include a related bachelor's degree, an admissions test, an application portfolio, and an interview, but that general statement is not a substitute for BCIT's own entry list. Confirm BCIT's prerequisite degree and courses, grade threshold, portfolio requirement, application window, intake size, and tuition on BCIT's program entry page before applying, and confirm whether the every-second-year intake pattern means no intake in the year of application.
Student membership is available during either program: Orthotics Prosthetics Canada offers student membership, with no annual fee, to persons studying at a recognized clinical or technical prosthetic and orthotic school in Canada. Joining is not stated as a condition of graduation on any official page, so no such claim is made here; it is noted because membership in good standing is the standing required to challenge the written examination later, as described in Step 5.
The residency is the supervised practice period between graduation and the certification examinations, and it is measured in hours, not in calendar time alone, although the schools and ALIS describe it as a two-year paid residency. ALIS Alberta states certification requires a 3,450-hour paid residency under the supervision of a certified prosthetist or orthotist. George Brown College states graduates enter a 3,450-hour residency program under the auspices of Orthotics Prosthetics Canada, in either orthotics or prosthetics, conducted under the supervision of a certified practitioner. The residency is completed in one discipline: the graduate is eligible to sit the CBCPO certification examinations in the discipline in which the residency was completed. Log the hours through Orthotics Prosthetics Canada from the start, as BCIT directs its graduates to do, and confirm with OPC how hours are recorded and approved, because no OPC residency page states the recording rules; the Internship Program page states the equivalent rule for technicians, that hours must be recorded and approved in the manner prescribed by OPC, and the same discipline applies to residents in practice, but the residency handbook itself is not quoted here.
Securing the residency is the graduate's task. BCIT states its graduates must independently seek out their own paid residency. That means the job search for a residency position, under a certified practitioner willing to supervise, should begin before graduation, not after it, and the applicant should confirm the supervision arrangement, the discipline, and the hours-logging process in writing before starting. A residency position in a private clinic, a hospital rehabilitation department, or a device manufacturing company, the settings ALIS names, counts only insofar as OPC credits the hours; the employer's job title alone does not establish that. Confirm the position's OPC standing with OPC before relying on its hours.
For the second discipline, the route is a second residency, shortened in one case. ALIS Alberta states that a person certified in one discipline who wishes to become certified in the other must complete a 3,450-hour residency in the second discipline, or, after practising for five years in the first discipline, complete a 1,725-hour residency in the second discipline. The designations then reflect both disciplines: Certified Orthotist CO(c) for orthotics, Certified Prosthetist CP(c) for prosthetics, and Certified Prosthetist and Orthotist CPO(c) for both, as the ISPO summary of the OPC pathway states. Confirm the current second-discipline rules with OPC, because the five-year and 1,725-hour figures come from the ALIS profile, not from an OPC residency page.
Certification runs through Orthotics Prosthetics Canada and the Canadian Board for Certification of Prosthetists and Orthotists, and the examinations are the step that converts a completed residency into the credential funders and employers ask for. The order is fixed: the written examination first, the practical examination second. The written examination is completed online and virtually, is offered twice per year in all certified and registered disciplines, and is a prerequisite to the practical examination. Residents are eligible to challenge it at any sitting while they are members in good standing with the association, and registration for the online written examination stands only for that scheduled sitting. The practical examination is offered once per year for certification in the spring, and residents are eligible to challenge it once all residency hours are completed and the written examination is passed. Completion of the practical examination is the final step in the pathway to certification.
The dates and fees current at the time this guide was drafted are stated here only as the figures on the OPC Examinations page, to be rechecked before registering. The written certification sittings named are February 12, 2027 and September 10, 2027, with registration deadlines shown as to be determined. The certification practical sitting named is June 5 and 6, 2027 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, with its location not finalized and to be confirmed eight weeks before the examination. The certification fees shown are 562.75 dollars for the written examination plus a 174.84 dollar application fee, and 787.19 dollars for the practical examination plus a 175.05 dollar application fee, with fees increasing 3 percent annually. Registration stands only for the scheduled sitting, and it is the applicant's responsibility to submit registration and the associated fees by the deadline. If accommodation for a physical or learning disability is needed, or a medically necessary device must be registered, a written request with supporting documentation must be submitted to the OPC national office following registration. No question count, pass mark, or content outline is stated, because no OPC page states them; use the examination materials linked from the OPC Examinations page, and confirm the current dates, deadlines, fees, and practical location there before planning travel or leave.
Prosthetists and orthotists work in private clinics, hospital rehabilitation departments, companies that manufacture prosthetic or orthotic devices, community health centres, and rehabilitation centres, according to ALIS Alberta and Job Bank, and some are self-employed. ALIS notes there are few positions in Alberta and many prosthetists and orthotists set up their own companies and work independently, and that demand is expected to rise as the population ages. Those are Alberta observations from a profile updated March 31, 2025, not a national outlook, and no national vacancy or outlook figure is stated in this guide.
The legal position is unusual and must be stated exactly. There is no provincial licence for this occupation on any official page. Job Bank's national requirements page states that, according to its records, the occupation is not regulated in Canada. ALIS Alberta states that no legislation currently regulates the occupation in Alberta. Yet certification functions as the working requirement, because the people who pay for devices require it. ALIS Alberta states that private and provincial funding agencies require prosthetists and orthotists to be certified by the Canadian Board for Certification of Prosthetists and Orthotists through Orthotics Prosthetics Canada. Ontario's Assistive Devices Program is the verified example: its applicant information sheet states that the applicant's practitioner will refer them to a Canadian board-certified orthotist registered as an Authorizer with the program, that the Authorizer completes and submits the funding application, and that the program pays 75 percent of the approved price. An employer posting may state its own certification, experience, and supervision requirements, and the posting governs for that job. Confirm the certification requirement on each posting and each funder page, and do not assume that the absence of a licence means certification is optional for funded work. Job Bank also lists registration with the Canadian Association of Prosthetists and Orthotists as something that may be required; that line is not carried as a current step in this guide, because the OPC and ALIS pages describe certification and registration through OPC and the CBCPO, and the association name on the Job Bank page appears to predate that arrangement. Confirm with OPC whether any separate association registration applies.
No Quebec-specific rule is stated in this guide. No regulator or funder page states a Quebec regulator, order, or rule for prosthetists and orthotists, and the position in Quebec must not be assumed from the rest of Canada. Confirm it with Orthotics Prosthetics Canada and with any Quebec funder or employer before practising or applying there.
One future change is already published and affects long-range planning. From January 1, 2033, all individuals seeking to enter residency in order to challenge the certification examinations must have completed, or be on track to complete before challenging the certification examinations, a recognized Master of Science program, prior to acceptance into the pathway. The change will not affect individuals who are already certified or residents as of January 1, 2033. A transition period runs from January 1, 2033 to December 31, 2042, during which multiple pathways to the Master of Science qualification will be available, including credit for students who already hold a Master of Science before enrolling at BCIT or George Brown College, or who are enrolled in the concurrent Master of Science program with McMaster University. The stated objective is a standalone Master of Science program in orthotics and prosthetics in Canada by 2043. The details are being finalized by OPC's National Education Standards Committee, so this guide states the change and its dates only, and anyone entering the pathway close to 2033 should track the final policies on OPC's page rather than planning around this summary.
Before any application, confirm the following on the page that governs that step, on the day the step is taken: the program's current degree, prerequisite course, grade, portfolio, admissions test, interview, tuition, and deadline requirements, because the two programs state different requirements and BCIT's full entry list does not appear on any official page cited here; the current BCIT intake year and intake size, because BCIT admits every second year on a pro-rated basis across four provinces; the residency position's supervision arrangement and hours-logging process with Orthotics Prosthetics Canada, before relying on its hours; the OPC examination dates, registration deadlines, fees, and practical examination location for the current year, because the dates carried here belong to the current cycle and the deadlines were shown as to be determined; the certification requirement on each employer posting and funder page, because no provincial licence substitutes for it; the Quebec position with Orthotics Prosthetics Canada, because no official page states it; and, for anyone trained outside Canada, the current internationally educated requirements, because the OPC Examinations page states only that additional examinations and materials may be required. Where this guide states a figure for one program or one cycle, it is that program's or that cycle's figure only. Where this guide states a check, the named page or posting is the source that answers it.
The three occupations are different jobs with different credentials, and this guide is not a second version of either companion guide. A respiratory therapist provides broad cardiopulmonary care: ventilatory support, diagnostic testing such as respiratory volume assessments and blood-gas sampling, clinical monitoring of patients under anaesthesia, and the operation of pulmonary and circulatory equipment, across intensive care, emergency, operating room, diagnostic, sleep, and home-care settings, after a three-year program, a national examination, and registration with a provincial regulator in eight provinces. A clinical perfusionist operates the extracorporeal circuit during surgery, maintaining a patient's respiration, circulation, and physiological state using equipment such as the heart-lung machine, after a postgraduate program at one of three schools and the Canadian Society of Clinical Perfusion certification examination. A prosthetist or orthotist assesses the patient, develops a treatment plan, and designs, fabricates, fits, adjusts, and evaluates an artificial limb (a prosthesis) or a brace or splint (an orthosis), after a four-year degree, a two-year accredited clinical program, a 3,450-hour residency, and the CBCPO written and practical examinations, with no provincial licence. The work differs in kind: breathing and circulation support inside the hospital, versus restoring movement and function with a device the patient wears and takes home. Holding one credential does not authorize the other work, and no official page states a shared entry route among the three occupations.
The clinician assesses the patient and owns the treatment plan; the technician fabricates the device to the clinical team's specification. ALIS Alberta states prosthetists and orthotists perform patient assessments and take histories, assess mobility, strength, and endurance, develop treatment plans, design and make devices or collaborate with prosthetic and orthotic technicians, and fit, adjust, and evaluate the finished device. Technicians provide technical support in the design, manufacture, and assembly of devices: making prostheses and orthoses from plaster cast positives, assessment forms, or computer-aided design and manufacturing, using materials such as thermoplastics, resins, metal alloys, leather, and carbon composites, and servicing and repairing devices and machinery. The entry routes differ. The clinician route requires a four-year degree, a two-year accredited clinical program, a 3,450-hour residency, and the CBCPO certification examinations. The technician route runs through the OPC Internship Program toward Registered Technician status: a 3,450-hour internship under Method I or a 6,900-hour internship under Method II, under a Certified or Registered Practitioner, followed by written and practical registration examinations. George Brown College runs both programs in Toronto: the two-year Clinical Methods program (S407), which requires a four-year degree, and the two-year Orthotic/Prosthetic Technician program (S102), which requires an Ontario Secondary School Diploma or equivalent. Do not enrol in the technician program expecting it to qualify the graduate as a clinician, and do not assume technician internship hours count toward the clinician residency; no official page states that they do.
Canada has two accredited clinical programs, and the choice turns mainly on where the applicant lives and which degree they hold, because both programs are two years long and both lead to the same residency. George Brown College in Toronto offers Clinical Methods in Orthotics/Prosthetics (S407), a two-year full-time graduate certificate taught at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, starting in September only, with applications through Ontario Colleges by February 1 of each year. Applicants must hold a four-year B.Sc. degree from an accredited institution; a four-year degree in engineering or kinesiology will be considered. Selection is a two-step process: an online entrance examination covering biology, biophysics and biomechanics, spatial relations, and prosthetics and orthotics knowledge, followed by an online video interview for the top-ranked applicants. The program accepts eight students. The British Columbia Institute of Technology in Burnaby offers a two-year Prosthetics and Orthotics diploma combining lectures, labs, and practical experience, with weekly clinical rotations, two four-week clinical practicums, and a capstone research project, according to Orthotics Prosthetics Canada. The western provinces of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba jointly fund the BCIT program; Orthotics Prosthetics Canada states BCIT accepts applications every second year on a pro-rated basis from each of the four provinces and accepts 14 students per intake, although the Manitoba Orthotics and Prosthetics Association page states 12 new students every second year; confirm the current intake size on BCIT's program entry page. ALIS Alberta states entrance requirements for both clinical programs include a related bachelor's degree, an admissions test, an application portfolio, and an interview. No BCIT prerequisite course list, grade threshold, portfolio requirement, or tuition figure is stated here, because none could be verified on an official page; confirm all of them on BCIT's program entry page before applying. No George Brown tuition figure is stated either, because the tuition figures shown on the program page were inconsistent; confirm the current figure on the program page. Confirm the current intake size, application deadline, and selection dates on each program's own page, because the dates shown on the George Brown page belong to a past selection cycle.
The residency is a paid, supervised period of practice in one discipline, prosthetics or orthotics, completed after the two-year clinical program and before the certification examinations. ALIS Alberta states certification requires a 3,450-hour paid residency under the supervision of a certified prosthetist or orthotist, plus a national certification examination for prosthetics or orthotics. George Brown College states the residency runs under the auspices of Orthotics Prosthetics Canada in either orthotics or prosthetics, under the supervision of a certified practitioner, and that graduates are eligible to sit the CBCPO certification examinations in the discipline in which they completed the residency. BCIT states its graduates must independently seek out their own paid, two-year residency and start logging residency hours through Orthotics Prosthetics Canada, so securing a residency position is the graduate's own task, not a placement the school guarantees; confirm with the school whether it assists with residency placement before assuming otherwise. The residency is one discipline at a time: certification is awarded per discipline, as Certified Orthotist CO(c), Certified Prosthetist CP(c), or Certified Prosthetist and Orthotist CPO(c) for those certified in both. For the second discipline, ALIS Alberta states two options: complete a further 3,450-hour residency in the second discipline, or practise for five years in the first discipline and then complete a 1,725-hour residency in the second discipline. Job Bank's NOC summary states prosthetists and orthotists require a two-year college program and three years of supervised practical training; that wording is a classification summary, not the operative pathway, and the OPC pathway stated above, a two-year program plus a 3,450-hour residency, is the one the schools and ALIS describe. Where the two wordings differ, the OPC pathway governs.
There are two examinations, in a fixed order. The written examination is online and virtual, is offered twice per year in all certified and registered disciplines, and is a prerequisite to the practical examination. Residents may challenge the written examination at any sitting while they are members in good standing with Orthotics Prosthetics Canada; registration stands only for that scheduled sitting. The practical examination is offered once per year for certification in the spring, and residents may challenge it once all residency hours are completed and the written examination is passed; it is the final step in the pathway to certification. The OPC Examinations page current at the time this guide was drafted names written certification sittings on February 12, 2027 and September 10, 2027, with registration deadlines shown as to be determined, and a certification practical sitting on June 5 and 6, 2027 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, with its location not finalized and to be confirmed eight weeks before the examination. The fees shown on that page for the certification examinations are 562.75 dollars for the written examination plus a 174.84 dollar application fee, and 787.19 dollars for the practical examination plus a 175.05 dollar application fee, with fees increasing 3 percent annually. Confirm the current dates, deadlines, and fees on the OPC Examinations page before registering, because the registration deadlines for the 2027 sittings were shown as to be determined and the practical location was not finalized. Do not confuse these with the registration (technician) examination fees shown on the same page, which are lower and belong to the separate technician pathway. No question count, pass mark, or examination content outline is stated in this guide, because no OPC page states them; use the examination materials linked from the OPC Examinations page.
No official page states a law requiring CBCPO certification to practise, and no official page states a provincial licence for prosthetists or orthotists. Job Bank's national requirements page states that, according to its records, the occupation is not regulated in Canada, and that CBCPO certification may be required. ALIS Alberta states the position for Alberta directly: no legislation currently regulates the occupation, but private and provincial funding agencies require prosthetists and orthotists to be certified by the Canadian Board for Certification of Prosthetists and Orthotists through Orthotics Prosthetics Canada. Ontario's Assistive Devices Program gives a concrete example of that funder requirement: applicants are referred to a Canadian board-certified orthotist registered as an Authorizer with the program, and the program pays 75 percent of the approved price. Treat certification as effectively required for funded clinical work, and confirm the requirement on each employer posting and funder page, rather than assuming either that a licence exists or that uncertified clinical practice is available. No Quebec-specific rule is stated, because no regulator or funder page states one; confirm the Quebec position with Orthotics Prosthetics Canada before assuming the rest of Canada's position applies there. Several figures are deliberately left out. No salary figure is stated: the only wage figure on the ALIS page covers the whole NOC 32129 group, not prosthetists and orthotists alone. No tuition figure is stated for either program, for the reasons given in the third FAQ. No total timeline is stated beyond the verified parts, four years of degree study, two years of program, and a 3,450-hour residency, because residency start dates and examination sittings vary. No internationally educated route is detailed in this guide: the OPC Examinations page states only that additional examinations and materials may be required for internationally educated applicants. Contact Orthotics Prosthetics Canada for the current requirements before assuming foreign training counts. No recertification, continuing education, or maintenance requirement is stated, because no OPC page states one; confirm it on OPC's pages rather than importing another body's rules. From January 1, 2033, a recognized Master of Science program will be required before entering residency to challenge the certification examinations, with a transition period running to December 31, 2042 and no effect on those already certified or residents as of January 1, 2033; that change does not affect anyone entering the pathway now, but anyone planning a late entry should track it on OPC's page.