FROM THE REGISTRAR’S DESK
Taking a good
practice and
making it better
Rocco Gerace, MD
Registrar
photo: D.W. Dorken
We want all physicians,
from all disciplines,
to have an opportunity
to share their thoughts
on prospective
assessment tools.
M
ost physicians
who are randomly
selected for a peer
assessment receive
a satisfactory outcome; about 85%
of those selected, in fact. No doubt
it is a relief for any physician to be
told by the College that he or she
is practising at the expected standard. But over the last few years,
we have been exploring ways to
make the assessment more useful
to that vast majority of physicians
who are already practising good
medicine. We want the physician
to emerge from the process with
new tools and insights to deliver
even higher quality care.
To make this happen, we
are relying on the experts – the
hundreds of peer assessors who
participate at the College. We
have organized these physicians by
specialty and asked them to design
a more consistent, more relevant,
more useful assessment for their
peers. After all, if you are going to
assess a pediatrician, who better
to understand the nuance of this
particular practice than a group of
pediatricians?
In sharing their collective experience and expertise, these networks
of assessors are helping create
assessment tools tailored to their
respective discipline to establish a
consistent, high bar of quality that
exemplifies best practices.
Ultimately, we want to provide
assessed physicians with the kind
of feedback that not only validates
appropriate care but also finds
opportunities for practice improvement. We want to make good
practices even better.
You will be hearing much more
about this redesign in the new
year. We want all physicians, from
all disciplines, to have an opportunity to share their thoughts on
prospective assessment tools. We’ll
be asking you to provide feedback
when new assessment tools are
drafted for your specialty through
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