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Advice to the Profession

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Advice to the Profession documents provide physicians and physician assistants ("Registrants") with additional information and general advice to help support their understanding and implementation of the expectations set out in policies, where applicable. They may also identify some best practices regarding specific practice issues.

  1. Accepting New Patients: Advice to the Profession
  2. Advertising: Advice to the Profession
  3. Availability and Coverage: Advice to the Profession
  4. Closing a Medical Practice: Advice to the Profession
  5. Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Advice to the Profession
  6. Conflicts of Interest and Industry Relationships: Advice to the Profession
  7. Consent to Treatment: Advice to the Profession
  8. Delegation of Controlled Acts: Advice to the Profession
  9. Disclosure of Harm: Advice to the Profession
  10. Dispensing Drugs: Advice to the Profession
  11. Ending the Physician-Patient Relationship: Advice to the Profession
  12. End-Of-Life Care: Advice to the Profession
  13. Ensuring Competence: Changing Scope of Practice and/or Re-Entering Practice: Advice to the Profession
  14. Human Rights in the Provision of Health Services: Advice to the Profession
  15. Infection Prevention and Control: Advice to the Profession
  16. Maintaining Appropriate Boundaries: Advice to the Profession
  17. Managing Tests: Advice to the Profession
  18. Medical Assistance in Dying: Advice to the Profession
  19. Medical Records Documentation: Advice to the Profession
  20. Medical Records Management: Advice to the Profession
  21. Physician Treatment of Self, Family Members, or Others Close to Them: Advice to the Profession
  22. Prescribing Drugs: Advice to the Profession
  23. Professional Behaviour: Advice to the Profession
  24. Professional Responsibilities in Medical Education: Advice to the Profession
  25. Protecting Personal Health Information: Advice to the Profession
  26. Providing Physician Services During Job Actions: Advice to the Profession
  27. Reporting Requirements: Advice to the Profession
  28. Social Media: Advice to the Profession
  29. Third Party Medical Reports: Advice to the Profession
  30. Transitions in Care: Advice to the Profession
  31. Uninsured Services: Billing and Block Fees: Advice to the Profession
  32. Using Artificial Intelligence in Clinical Practice: Advice to the Profession
  33. Virtual Care: Advice to the Profession
  34. Walk-in Clinics: Advice to the Profession