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Medical Director Standard
Dr. Gary Smith Receives Council Award
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The aim of this policy is to support and regulate the safe and appropriate provision of complementary and alternative medicine, not to prohibit or prevent its use.
Physicians must safeguard their clinical objectivity and professional independence when interacting with industry.
When a patient’s specific circumstances and health status make it appropriate, physicians who provide care as part of a sustained physician-patient relationship must, where possible, initiate a discussion about advance care planning.
Physicians must act in their patients’ best interests.
In order to ensure appropriate follow-up on test results can occur, physicians must have an effective test results management system.
Physicians must comply with all relevant legislation and regulatory requirements related to medical record-keeping.
This policy includes legislative requirements and professional obligations of physicians related to the privacy and confidentiality of patients’ PHI.
Within hospitals or health-care institutions where care is provided by a team of changing individuals, physicians must coordinate with others on the team to keep patients informed about who has primary responsibility for managing their care (i.e., their most responsible provider).
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.
Physicians must only practise in the areas of medicine in which they are educated and experienced.
Learn more about the new Physician Assistants policy that outlines key professional expectations for physician assistants.
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.
The following listing provides access to information about out-of-hospital premises where procedures are performed under various forms of anaesthesia. This information includes the outcome/status of an inspection of the premises.
The following listing provides access to information about out-of-hospital premises where procedures are performed under various forms of anaesthesia. This information includes the outcome/status of an inspection of the premises.
The CPSO issues certificates of registration to physicians, allowing them to practise medicine or engage in postgraduate medical training in Ontario, as set out in the Ontario Regulation 865/93: Registration.
The law requires physicians to report certain events and clinical conditions either to the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (“CPSO”) or other health regulatory bodies (i.e., colleges) and agencies. While not exhaustive, this document provides an overview of some of the key laws and is meant to assist physicians in navigating their legal reporting duties.
Whether in paper or electronic format, physicians must comply with all relevant legislation and regulatory requirements related to medical record-keeping.
Physicians must comply with the requirements for prescribing that are set out in this policy, as well those contained in any other relevant College policies and legislation.
MRPs and/or supervisors must provide appropriate supervision to medical students, which is proportionate to the medical student’s level of training and experience.
Physicians must comply with the expectations set out in this policy and any other specific legal principles and requirements that may apply to the IME, third party medical report, and/or testimony.
This document provides some background information on the scope of these policies and the role of patients, technology and the health-care system in facilitating continuity of care.
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