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CPD ACTIVITY LOG
TREATING WILDLIFE
It’ s the season when people enjoy being outdoors, which leads to findings of injured, sick or orphaned wild animals, including endangered and at-risk species.
The Fish and Wildlife Conservation Act prohibits the public from keeping wildlife in captivity except for rehabilitation or treatment by a veterinarian. There are no restrictions prohibiting licensed members from treating injured or orphaned wildlife. However, it is not appropriate to keep wildlife at a veterinary facility longer than necessary to stabilitize it and arrange transport to a wildlife rehabilitation facility.
The Endangered Species Act enables veterinarians to possess or transport an endangered species for treatment. The regulations also permit a veterinarian to euthanize an endangered species.
CPD Activity Log
TRY OUT THE NEW CPD ACTIVITY LOG!
With this new tool, veterinarians can quickly and efficiently log their completed Continuing Professional Development activities. This simplified tool allows veterinarians to log CPD activities that they have completed, assign activity codes to each activity, and indicate learning outcomes
As a web-based tool, the CPD Activity Log is easy to use from a computer, laptop, tablet or smartphone. The new tool will also automatically calculate the total number of CPD hours logged for each activity category to add to your annual licence renewal.
The new CPD Activity Log is a feature of the Professional Practice Portal. Find it at www. cvo. org / portal.
Electronic Records
AUDIT TRAIL NOW REQUIRED
Licensed members are already making use of the new CPD Activity Log. As of April 30, 2016, 306 veterinarians have logged at least one hour of CPD activity using the new log. Although early in the CPD reporting period, an average of 18 hours and 36 minutes of CPD activity has been logged by CPD Activity Log users. On average, licensed members completed 157 hours of CPD activities in 2015.
Check out the new CPD Activity Log!
Regulatory amendments require that software used in keeping medical records provides an audit trail.
The audit trail:
• records the date and time of each entry of information for each animal
• indicates any changes in the recorded information
• preserves the original content of the recorded information when changed or updated
• is capable of being printed separately from the recorded information of each animal
Please check with your software vendor to confirm the necessary information is being recorded appropriately.
College Staff
Registrar’ s Office Ms. Jan Robinson- Registrar & CEO
Ms. Anita Lovrich Policy Specialist
Ms. Kim Huson Communications Specialist
Ms. Stephanie Bongiorno Associate, Communications
Corporate Services
Ms. Beth Ready Executive Partner, Corporate Services
Ms. Shauna Spencer Ambassador, Corporate Services
Licensure
Ms. Shilo Tooze Senior Partner, Licensure
Ms. Lindsay Mitchell Principal, Licensure & Professional Corporations
Ms. Iryna Trask Associate, Licensure & Professional Corporations
Ms. Rose Robinson Principal, Investigations & Resolutions
Ms. Sharan Ghandial Associate, Investigations & Resolutions
Mr. Martin Fischer Investigations & Inspections Specialist
Quality Practice
Dr. Kim Lambert Senior Partner, Quality Practice
Dr. Susan Sabatini Practice Advisor
Ms. Megan Callaway Principal, Quality Practice
Ms. Aneeta Bharij Principal, Accreditation
Accreditation Inspectors Mr. Brian Redpath Mr. Wilf Muller Mr. Adrian Darmon
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