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This document is intended to help physicians interpret the expectations as set out in the Physician Treatment of Self, Family Members or Others Close to Them policy and provide guidance around how these obligations may be effectively discharged.
Advice to the Profession: Patient Selection Standard
This document is intended to help physicians interpret their obligations as set out in the Physicians’ Relationships with Industry: Practice, Education, and Research policy, and provide guidance for how these obligations can be effectively discharged.
Telemedicine
When providing virtual care, physicians must continue to meet the standard of care and the existing legal and professional obligations that apply to care that is provided in person, including those pertaining to prescribing drugs, medical record-keeping, protecting personal health information, consent to treatment, continuity of care, and charging for insured and uninsured services.
Information about individuals who have been practising medicine without a certificate of registration and/or a person who has been holding him/herself out as a physician in contravention of the Regulated Health Professions Act, 1991 or the Medicine Act, 1991.
Physicians must employ the first-come, first-served approach when accepting new patients into their practices.
Physicians may wish to change their scope of practice if they become interested in a different area of medicine or if their personal circumstances change.
MRPs and/or supervisors must provide appropriate supervision to medical students, which is proportionate to the medical student’s level of training and experience.
This policy applies to all physicians who are closing a medical practice, including those who work in group practices or institutional settings, regardless of practice area or specialty.
In a unanimous decision released today, the Superior Court of Justice (Divisional Court) supported patients’ rights to access health services an...
This document provides guidance on how the obligations set out in the Decision-Making for End-of-Life Care policy can be effectively discharged.
Registration Reports
Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
What documentation requirements apply to endoscopy/colonoscopy premises?
This Advice to the Profession document discusses some of the benefits and outlines key considerations physicians should keep in mind when using AI scribes.
Consultation Process & Posting Guidelines
Advice to the Profession: Medical Director Standard
This policy sets out expectations to help physicians navigate the online environment and prevent conduct that could harm the public’s trust in individual physicians and the profession as a whole.
This document is a companion document to the College’s Medical Records Documentation policy and provides guidance with respect to how to satisfy the expectations set out in the policy, as well as best practices for documenting specific patient encounters.
Decision Making for End-of-Life Care: Guide for Patients and Caregivers
Out-of-Hospital Premises Standard: Image Guidance When Administering Nerve Blocks for Adult Chronic Pain
Physicians who dispense drugs must meet the same dispensing standards as pharmacists and comply with the requirements set out in this policy, in any other relevant College policies, and provincial and federal legislation.
Physicians who are closing their medical practice often contact the College to seek guidance about the measures they should take before they close their medical practice.
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