Committee: Discipline
Decision Date: 02 May 2011
Summary:
On May 2, 2011, the Discipline Committee found that Dr. Nabil Nashat Namis committed an act of professional misconduct, in that he has engaged in conduct or an act or omission relevant to the practice of medicine that, having regard to all the circumstances, would reasonably be regarded by members as disgraceful, dishonourable or unprofessional.
The Discipline Committee ordered and directed that:
1. Dr. Namis attend before the panel to be reprimanded, with the fact of the reprimand to be recorded on the register;
2. The Registrar impose as terms, conditions and limitations on Dr. Namis' certificate of registration:
a. that Dr. Namis shall participate in and successfully complete, at his own expense and within five months of the date of this Order, an educational program in medical ethics approved by the College;
b. that Dr. Namis, at his own expense, shall participate in and successfully complete an educational program in medical recordkeeping for obstetrics and gynecology attached [to the Order] as Schedule "A", with a preceptor, to be approved by the College in its sole discretion and who has within fortyfive days of the date of this Order signed an Undertaking to the College in the form attached [to the Order] as Schedule "B", and shall abide by all recommendations of his preceptor with respect to practice improvements and/or professional development related to his fulfillment of the educational need and achievement of the outcome set out in Schedule "A"; and
3. Each of the abovenoted terms, conditions and limitations on Dr. Namis' certificate of registration shall be removed upon successful completion of the corresponding educational program, as required by paragraphs 2(a) and (b) above.
4. Dr. Namis shall, within 30 days, pay the College its costs of this proceeding in the amount of $3,650.00.