CMTBC’s online courses provide instruction on practice standards, legislation, the Code of Ethics, and other requirements specific to RMT practice. The courses support RMTs’ ability to make decisions that align with practice standards, ethics, and other regulatory requirements. CMTBC’s online courses interpret professional requirements in the context of familiar practice scenarios and examples.
There is no required online course in 2023. Registrants may choose to complete or re-complete previous CMTBC online courses if they wish to do so to support their massage therapy practice.
For enrollment in CMTBC online courses, please send an email to [email protected] and College staff will guide you through the next steps.
Please read important information about CMTBC online courses displayed on this page and contained within accordion boxes. Click on the bold text in each box below to read further information.
Information below about the recommended devices and browser for online course completion reflects what CMTBC has learned from RMTs’ experience with College-authored online courses. The learning management system used by CMTBC, Brightspace, is available on electronic devices with web access; however, there are optimal ways to complete the courses. The following advice is not designed to limit your options but to optimize the learning experience and enable you to get the most out of your investment in CMTBC’s online courses.
Delivering curriculum online is a choice made by CMTBC’s Quality Assurance Committee and Board of Directors to meet RMTs’ learning needs, and to ensure RMTs understand the practice standards and other regulatory requirements. Thank you for following these recommendations to have the best possible learning environment. Click on the bold text in each box below to read further information.
Although the course is accessible on all electronic devices with browsers, the curriculum includes many images and interactive elements that need a laptop or desktop computer to function properly and are not visible on smartphones (and some tablets). The curriculum can be viewed and completed on most devices, but additional learning tools – the full learning experience supported by images and interactive elements – are only available on desktop and laptop computers.
Smartphones
Tablets
RMTs who do not have a desktop or laptop computer should arrange to complete the course on a computer in a public facility, a shared workspace, or elsewhere in their community.
Apple/Mac users
If you have Safari as your default browser, it is recommended that you download and use Google Chrome for trouble-free access to complete the online course.
Please ensure the operating system (OS) of your device is updated. If you are having trouble upgrading to the latest version, it may be that your device is relatively old and can’t be updated to the latest version of the OS. In that case, your browser will likely also be out of date. For that reason, you will not be able to update your browser. Please switch to a different device to avoid any technical errors.
The Brightspace learning platform has built-in accommodations for learners with disabilities. The end-of-module quizzes and the final exam for the course have a time limit in which learners must complete the tasks.
RMTs with disabilities who require additional time are asked to contact [email protected] to ask for accommodations. CMTBC will accommodate learners with verifiable documentation of any disability recognized under BC’s Human Rights Code.
Please note that CMTBC does not provide a paper version of the online course; the course must be completed online.
As part of the Practice Development Program, each year all Practising RMTs are required to complete a CMTBC-directed learning activity as a requirement for registration renewal. The required CMTBC-directed learning activity changes from year to year based on needs identified by CMTBC across the profession, including the introduction of a new Standard of Practice.
To support implementation of the Indigenous Cultural Safety, Humility, and Anti-Racism Standard of Practice, the CMTBC-directed learning activity for 2024 will be a mandatory College-authored online course on Indigenous cultural safety, humility, and anti-racism.
RMTs will be able to complete the mandatory College-authored online course at any time between January and October 2024 (a total period of 10 months). Completion of the online course will be a registration renewal requirement for 2025.
More information about the course and how to enroll will be provided before it is launched.
This course, launched in 2022, provides information to RMTs regarding documentation requirements found in CMTBC’s Standards of Practice, Schedule ‘E’ of the Bylaws, Code of Ethics, and the Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA).
The learning objectives for this course are:
RMTs have eight weeks to complete the course and final exam from the day of payment. Payment of the $100 course fee occurs in the Registrant Portal.
The certificate of course completion is for your records only.
The final exam is based on primary resources that RMTs can refer to for guidance:
This course, launched in 2021, provides essential information on the Code of Ethics and the CMTBC Practice Environment Standard of Practice.
CMTBC’s Code of Ethics and Practice Environment learning objectives are:
RMTs have eight weeks to complete the course and final exam from the day of payment. Payment of the $100 course fee occurs in the Registrant Portal.
The final exam is based on primary resources that RMTs can refer to for practice guidance:
While additional resources are introduced in modules 1-5 of the course, outlined below, the final exam assesses RMTs’ knowledge of the practice environment standard and the Code of Ethics.
This course, launched in 2020, provides essential information on the CMTBC Boundaries Standard of Practice and Consent Standard of Practice.
CMTBC’s Boundaries and Consent online course teaches you how to maintain professional boundaries in your massage therapy practice and how to obtain informed consent from your patients.
The learning objective is to provide you with working knowledge of CMTBC’s Boundaries Standard of Practice (Modules 1-4) and the Consent Standard of Practice (Modules 5-8), so you can make consistently good clinical decisions using some of the most important “non-technical” skills of your massage therapy practice.
RMTs have eight weeks to complete the course and final exam from the day of payment. Payment of the $100 course fee occurs in the Registrant Portal.
The final exam is based on primary resources that RMTs can refer to for practice guidance:
While additional resources are introduced in modules 1-7 of the course, outlined below, the final exam assesses RMTs’ knowledge of the boundaries and consent standards, and the Code of Ethics.
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