Education Requirements

To become a respiratory therapist it requires a lot of schooling.before you get into a college to specialize in respiratory therapy there are a few high school courses you need to take first like :  and gr11 or 12 biology,and gr12 math, any gr11 or 12 chemistry and gr12 physics. the final mark need in these classes are a 65% average. Once you are in college/ university you will have to take a 3 year advance diploma program where you would learn the theoretical and practical components to respiratory therapy. in the first 2 years that you are in school you will learn are continuously learned upon. concepts about professionalism  analysis, problem solving and health and safety is learned through out the course. You get to do practical demonstrations, role playing, task training and high  fidelity simulation with computerized human patient simulators