Applications are now being accepted for January 2012. For more information, please see the Apply page.

The NSERC CREATE Academic Rehabilitation Engineering (CARE) training program aims to prepare a new breed of engineers who not only have profound disciplinary knowledge, but the cross-disciplinary breadth to effectively address 21st century rehabilitation challenges. In the face of widespread chronic disability, there is an unprecedented need for innovative solutions. With no other formal academic rehabilitation engineering training program in Canada, and in fact, very few in the world, the CARE program initiative is strategic; it will build on existing strengths in engineering and rehabilitation sciences, to assert Canada's pre-eminence in rehabilitation engineering by cultivating a new generation of engineering leaders poised to transform rehabilitation on a global scale.

The CARE program promises to reshape graduate education at the interface of engineering and rehabilitation sciences yielding coveted leaders for the national and international workforce.

The CARE program emphasizes training in three targeted areas:

Interdisciplinary research:
Trainees will be dually supervised by faculty from health and engineering disciplines, will build clinical acumen through targeted hospital observerships and develop multiple perspectives through team-taught interdisciplinary courses and by conducting their research in a clinically embedded laboratory. Trainees will engage in research along two main themes

Communication skills:
Trainees will hone communication skills through outreach activities, hospital and conference presentations and a formal grant writing workshop.

Professional development:
Trainees will be equipped with project management skills and practical experience in one or more areas of technology commercialization, assistive devices industry and government.