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Sutherland Academy is proud to have sponsored the Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy Games 2014!
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Posted : January 28, 2025 Hit : 6644
Last January 24, 25 and 26, the 2014 Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy Games (OTPT Games) were held, the largest in America to which the Sutherland Academy participated as the main sponsor. Hosting was the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences of Laval University, and the games were a success with over 1000 participants from Quebec and Ontario.
It was an opportunity for Daniel Turcotte and Sylvain Magnan, administrators of ASOQ, of establishing links with students with a passion for health, university environment and potential employers of the Institute's graduates.
Student representatives from six Quebec universities and one from Ontario met at the PEP of Laval University for fun and compete in a friendly atmosphere. Different teams battled through events that were both fun and showed the physical qualities and teamwork spirit of participants. Kine-Concept hosted the most popular game: Bubble football!
"We were in tune with the mission of this event, since it was intended to optimize exchanges between students who, throughout he event, participated in a multitude of sports, intellectual and social events and mingled with their future colleagues, in a spirit of friendly competition. Sylvain and I have witnessed leadership qualities, teamwork and energy of the participants", says Daniel Turcotte, president of the Academy. "It was also a great opportunity to connect with these communities and the Quebec and Ontario Academic networks with the aim of collaboration and exchange. Being authorized to issue CEUs by SOFEDUC, our schools will become an important source of continuous training for these professionals", says Sylvain Magnan, Vice-President for Development at ASOQ.
Sylvain made a fiery speech carrying an interdisciplinary vision of different health professionals, including massage therapists, osteopaths and naturopaths who proudly represent the Complementary and Alternative Medicines.
We thank the organizing committee and especially the President Bastien Garon and Vice-President Anne-Sophie Paquet, as well as volunteers and 1,000 participants for their warm welcome. “An important step has been taken in bringing closer the formal approaches and complementary and alternative health medicines, which foresees a more interesting future, "says Daniel Turcotte.
We congratulate once again the winning team, that of McGill University. It will host the 2015 edition of the event, which will take place in Montreal.
From right to left : Sylvain Magnan, Daniel Turcotte, the representative of Mcgill University with the trophee of the winner.
The administrators ASOQ with a few proud representatives of McGill university.
Transfer of the event flame from Université Laval to MgGill University.