reports from council
Physician Behaviour in the Professional Environment
Council has approved the draft Physician
Behaviour in the Professional Environment
policy release for an external consultation.
The draft updates the current policy, although
the key provisions and expectations have not
changed.
Please visit our website at www.cpso.on.ca
to participate in the consultation and read our
article on page 27.
Blood Borne Viruses
Council has approved a policy that sets expectations for physicians who perform or assist in
performing exposure prone procedures with
respect to reducing the risk of acquiring or
transmitting Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C and HIV.
The Blood Borne Viruses policy also
includes expectations for physicians if they
are exposed to a blood borne virus, and lastly,
expectations for physicians if they are infected
with any of these viruses.
Please see the article on page 29. The policy
is attached to page 27.
Removal of Information from Public
Register
Council considered the principles for use by the
Registrar in exercising his discretion to remove
information from the public register when a
physician has requested its removal. The Registrar is allowed the discretion under a section in
the Health Professions Procedural Code.
The updated principles are posted on our
website.
Please see the article on page 31.
Posting SCERPS Ordered by Quality
Assurance Committee
Council approved the circulation of a bylaw that contemplates making public those
SCERPs – Specified Continuing Educational
or Remediation Programs – which are ordered
by the Quality Assurance Committee (QAC).
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As a result of our Transparency Initiative,
the College has been posting SCERPs ordered
by the Inquiries, Complaints and Reports
Committee on doctors’ profiles in the public
register for the past several months.
We are currently consulting on the by-law.
Please visit our website at www.cpso.on.ca to
provide feedback and read our article on page
30.
Sexual Abuse: Update on College’s
Initiative
Council was presented with a progress report
on the work that has been undertaken as
part of the College’s Sexual Abuse Initiative,
the focus of which is to better support and
protect patients from physician sexual abuse.
Council provided further direction on several
issues related to this work.
Council was also updated on the College’s
Education and Training Project Plan related
to sexual abuse and maintaining boundaries for a wide range of audiences/learners:
physicians, medical trainees, and Council
and Committee members. The Project Plan
includes the following four key deliverables:
1) Remediation in Committee Decisions, 2)
Training Member-Specific Committees, 3)
Education of Medical Trainees, and 4) Education of Profession. Council was provided
with an update on planning, including needs
assessments where relevant, that have been
completed, and the work underway to achieve
the deliverables identified in the Project Plan.
Please read more about the Sexual Abuse
Initiative on page 32.
Physician Treatment of Self, Family
Members or Others Close to Them
Council reviewed the consultation feedback
received on the draft policy and the revisions
that had been proposed in response. Council
determined that the draft needed further revisions and deferred the decision to approve.
The draft sets out the circumstances in which
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