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Practicum document requirements

To protect yourself, your students, your clients or patients, and your colleagues, you must provide the following documents for your program.

Important

Remember to keep copies of all documents. The Faculty doesn't provide copies.  
Vulnerable Sector Screening (VSS) are required prior of the start of each placement.

Instructions by document type

Review the following instructions and provide all required documentation by the deadlines. 

We'll email when it's time to submit the required documents. Don't start your application for Police Vulnerable Sector Screening (VSS) or submit forms before this.

Faculty of Education - Practicum Risk Management Online form

The submission of this form is required once at the beginning of the program of study, prior to the confirmation of the student's first placement.   

Police Vulnerable Sector Screening (VSS)

You require an annual Police Vulnerable Sector Screening (VSS) for all placements. It includes a search for police involvement (CPIC) as well as a search for any sexual offence convictions for which an individual has received a pardon. We reserve the right to revoke admission offers and/or cancel your enrolment at any time based on the results of the VSS.

Your VSS must cover your last five years of residency. This includes a VSS or equivalent for every country in which you have lived for six consecutive months or longer during the last five years. If you've lived outside of Canada for six consecutive months or more in the past five years, you must notify us by email at [email protected].

Only the local police services are authorized to conduct a VSS.

Your VSS is a legal document, so your name must be the same on the VSS as in your uoZone Student Center.

Reporting an accident while on placement

Consult the information on the Risk Management Office website on reporting an accident or illness during a placement. Read health and safety roles and responsibilities and accountability structure carefully.  
In all cases, it is important to: 
Complete the uOttawa online Accident, Incident or Occupational Disease Form. 
Inform your program placement coordinator at your Faculty at uOttawa.  
Inform the placement employer. 
Your report will be reviewed, and you will be contacted for follow-up. For any further questions, please write to [email protected].

Reporting an accident