Program Overview

MaŅtrise Professionnelle

The MaŅtrise professionnelle offers a structured approach to reflection, criticism, and rigor in the context of professional practice. This training aims to support the development of transversal skills (collaboration, erudition, leadership, practice improvement, communication, etc.) to assume new roles and situate professional practice in its environment with confidence and reflectivity.

Objectives

The training aims to enable students to:

1. Analyze their professional practice in rehabilitation based on scientific evidence, experiential knowledge, and practice context.
2. Develop advanced skills in rehabilitation within an interprofessional collaboration framework to:
   1. Act with reflectivity and effectiveness in communications and interactions with users, teams, and partners.
   2. Contribute to the evaluation and improvement of rehabilitation programs.
   3. Analyze and integrate into practice principles specific to specific intervention areas (pain, mental health, cancer, pedagogy, etc.).
3. Apply a systematic and rigorous approach to contribute to solving complex problems encountered in the rehabilitation practice environment.

Advantages

• Courses are offered at a distance.
• The program is part-time.
• It opens up new employment perspectives.
• The program offers a personalized and self-paced path (4 to 6 years).
• The final project aims to solve a problem in the student's own practice context.
• Students can obtain the M. Read degree.

Recognition of Credits

It is possible to recognize credits obtained in other University of Sherbrooke programs towards the maŅtrise:

• Diploma in gerontology intervention (24 credits).
• Microprograms in pain management (12 credits).
• Microprogram in health science pedagogy (6 credits).

Other Programs of Interest

• Dipl¶me d'ķtudes supķrieures spķcialisķes de 2e cycle en pratiques de la rķadaptation.
• Microprogramme de 3e cycle en leadership pour l'amķlioration des pratiques professionnelles de rķadaptation, de santķ et de services sociaux (LEAD-RS).

Admission

Admissions to this program are suspended for the fall of 2026. Applicants are invited to submit an application for the LEAD-RS microprogram instead.

Career Outcomes

62% of graduates occupy a new position during or after their training (teacher, support-counselor, other clinician position, planning, programming, and research officer, manager, professional respondent).