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Ultimately, the College will have a mechanism to
measure and understand how educational
activities contribute to changes in behaviour.
assessing and enhancing physician competence
to achieve our ultimate vision of quality professionals.
We are now focusing our energies on integrating and coordinating physician education across
all College committees and programs to ensure
consistency with respect to physicians needs assessment, educational activities, data collection,
outcome and reporting.
Ultimately, the College will have a mechanism
to measure and understand how educational activities contribute to changes in behaviour. Why is
this important? Well, it allows us to provide guidance for the identification of physician needs; it
allows us to then address those needs consistently
across all processes; and it ensures that identified
needs are incorporated into educational programs
at the undergraduate and postgraduate level. It
also allows us to demonstrate to stakeholders the
effectiveness of our educational approaches.
You will have already read about our work on
the Quality Management Partnership (QMP) in
Dialogue and in the earlier pages of this annual
report. We are extremely proud of this initiative’s
collaborative approach to ensure quality of care
across facilities.
The QMP is a joint effort with Cancer Care
Ontario to look at the delivery of mammography, colonoscopy, and pathology with the goal of
ensuring quality and consistency wherever these
services are provided. As more services move from
hospital into the community, the focus on provincial quality initiatives is anticipated to continue
with expansion with other clinical areas.
Consistent with our strategic priority of ensuring physician competence, via our physician
assessment program and oversight of clinics, this
work will continue to be important to ensuring a
healthy system.
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The public trust component of our vision can be
achieved if the College is accountable and transparent.
Our Transparency Initiative was prompted by a
growing recognition that access to more information may assist members of the public in choosing
physicians, enhance accountability, and better
inform any evaluation of the performance of regulation of the profession.
Extensive external consultation has been crucial
to the success of Phase 1 and Phase 2 of the implementation and as we move forward with the next
phase of this important project, we will again be
seeking your input.
Quality data is a key enabler of the QMP, Education and Transparency strategies. This initiative
represents a fundamental re-evaluation of how the
College collects, manages, uses and releases data in
order to support our strategic initiatives.
In addition to capturing data to improve processes, this initiative will shift the College’s focus
to analysis that will inform practice improvement,
demonstrate program effectiveness and contribute
to a healthy system.
We look forward to reporting on our progress
on these initiatives throughout the next three years
of our plan.
However, it is worth pointing out that while
these strategic initiatives will focus on achievement of our vision, we will also be initiating other
important activities. Over the next three years, we
will continue to address important matters such as
Infection Control and Opioid Prescribing.
In closing, I would like to thank all of you for
your cooperation and feedback as we continue to
move the College forward. None of our advances
would have been possible without the thoughtful
participation of the profession, the public, government and other health-care organizations.
COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS OF ONTARIO