Registration Policy Approved
Reading time: 3 minutes CPSO’s new registration policy accepts the Licentiate of the Medical Council of Canada as a replacement for the MCCQE2 for the issuance of an independent practice certificate.
Introducing CPSO’s 2022 President, Vice-President
Reading time: 3 minutes We are pleased to introduce you to our new President, Dr. Janet van Vlymen, an anesthesiologist from Kingston, and our new Vice-President, Dr. Rob Gratton, an obstetrician-gynecologist from London.
By-law Changes
Reading time: 2 minutes We are circulating an amended by-law to reflect the reduced annual fee for parental leave and Council approved amendments that allow the College’s continued functioning during an emergency.
Public Member Appointment
Reading time: 2 minutes CPSO is pleased to welcome new public member Ms. Julia Goyal to Council. She is an Affiliate at the Global Labour Research Center and a member of the Waterloo Institute for Complexity and Innovation.
A Plan to Move Forward
Reading time: 4 minutes To help organizations develop policies that meet the needs of patients and health-care professionals, a team of researchers put forward recommendations to respond to biased patients.
Virtual Care
Reading time: 3 minutes As patients and physicians try to find new footing in a post-pandemic world, a new draft policy specifically providing guidance on virtual care is ready for consultation.
Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy
Reading time: 3 minutes A policy regulating the use of complementary or alternative medicine states the higher the potential risk to the patient for a particular treatment, the higher the level of evidence required.
Treating Patient Bias
Reading time: 16 minutes CPSO’s mandate is to regulate physicians in the public interest, but there are good reasons within our role as an advocate for quality patient care to be concerned when patients target physicians with abuse.
Your Unvaccinated Patients
Reading time: 3 minutes CPSO reminds physicians that patients cannot be denied access to in-person care if they are unvaccinated or don’t have a recent negative COVID-19 test result.
The Launch of the Discipline Tribunal
Reading time: 5 minutes Effective September 1, 2021, the CPSO Discipline Committee became the Ontario Physicians and Surgeons Discipline Tribunal (OPSDT) — a move that better signals its neutrality and independence from the College.
A Beautiful Death
Reading time: 10 minutes For many people with terminal and life-threatening illnesses, there’s no place like home. We interview several doctors who dedicate themselves to making their patient’s last wish come true.
The Ontario Patient Ombudsman
Reading time: 5 minutes As an office of ‘last resort,’ the Patient Ombudsman only deals with complaints that patients or their families have already tried to resolve somewhere else. Since COVID-19, the office has never been busier.