Professions Governed by a Professional Order
Certain professions are governed by a professional order: for example, engineer, medical imagery technologist and certified translator. Whether you’re choosing a career or changing your career path, it’s important to know the conditions of admission to these professions.
Role of professional orders
Professional orders are responsible, in particular, for:
- Ensuring the protection of the public
- Regulating and overseeing the practise of professions
- Fostering the development of professions
List of professions governed by a professional order in Québec
Forty-six professional orders have been constituted in Québec under the Professional Code. Consult the website of each order to find out, for example, the:
- Conditions of admission to the profession
- Procedure for admission to the order
- Procedure for obtaining a permit to practise the profession
- Fees paid for entry on the roll of the order
The following professions are governed by a professional order in Québec:
- Acupuncturist (French only)
- Advocate
- Agrologist (French only)
- Architect (French only)
- Audiologist (French only)
- Bailiff (French only)
- Certified human resources professional and certified industrial relations counsellor (French only)
- Certified interpreter
- Certified terminologist
- Certified translator
- Chartered administrator (French only)
- Chartered appraiser (French only)
- Chartered professional accountant (French only)
- Chemist
- Chiropractor (French only)
- Criminologist (French only)
- Dental hygienist (French only)
- Dental prosthesis and appliance technologists (French only)
- Dentist
- Denturologist
- Dietician (French only)
- Dispensing optician (French only)
- Engineer
- Forest engineer (French only)
- Geologist
- Guidance counsellor (French only)
- Hearing-aid acoustician (French only)
- Land-surveyor (French only)
- Marriage and family therapist (French only)
- Medical electrophysiology technologist (French only)
- Medical imagery technologist – Nuclear medecine (French only)
- Medical imagery technologist – Radiodiagnosis (French only)
- Medical technologist (French only)
- Midwife
- Notary
- Nurse (French only)
- Nursing assistant (French only)
- Occupational therapist (French only)
- Optometrist (French only)
- Pharmacist (French only)
- Physical rehabilitation therapist
- Physician
- Physiotherapist
- Podiatrist (French only)
- Professional technologist (French only)
- Psychoeducator (French only)
- Psychologist (French only)
- Radiation oncology technologist (French only)
- Registered respiratory therapist (French only)
- Sexologist (French only)
- Social worker (French only)
- Speech therapist (French only)
- Town planner (French only)
- Veterinary surgeon (French only)
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