150th anniversary
A doctor treating a baby
as part of a public health
initiative in Toronto, c. 1920s.
1915
Lieutenant-Colonel John
McCrae, a member of the
College, wrote In Flanders
Fields while serving in the
First World War. He was
inspired to write it after
presiding over the funeral of
a fellow soldier who died in
the Second Battle of Ypres.
1925
The Drugless Practitioners
Act is passed to allow
osteopaths, chiropractors and
other practitioners to selfregulate. The title of “doctor”
is restricted to medical
practitioners.
1916
1919
1939
1966
CPSO member Dr. Norman
Bethune receives his
medical degree from the
University of
Toronto.
World War II begins. Between
the two world wars, 50 Ontario
physicians gave their lives in
active duty.
5,992 Doctors
in ontario
1974
The Health Disciplines Act
passes after a lengthy period
of consultation. The Act
formalizes the appointment
of public members to
Council and establishes the
Health Disciplines Board
to coordinate activities
between the professions.
1994
The Regulated
Health Professions
Act comes into
force, including Bill
100, which adds
legislation relating to
patient sexual abuse.
1981
The Peer Assessment
program begins to
monitor ongoing physician
competency by randomly
selecting physicians for
office practice assessments.
1997
The College launches
its website, making
it the first medical
regulatory website in
Canada.
2012
The Canadian Department
of Health is formed. The
first initiatives are sharedcost funding programs
with the provinces to battle
tuberculosis and venereal
disease that returned with
soldiers from the war.
The Federal Medical Care Act
passes, extending insurance
coverage for hospital care to
doctors’ services,
and officially
beginning
Canadian
Medicare.
1990
Discipline hearings and
the governing council’s
meetings are opened to the
public.
The College launches
its transparency
initiative to review
ways to provide the
public with more
useful physicianspecific and process
information on the
College website.
2013
1921
CPSO member Dr. Frederick
Banting and his assistant
Charles Best discover
insulin. 5,320 doctors
1970
Journalist Betty Kennedy is
appointed as the first public
member of the Complaints
Committee with the goal of
encouraging “participatory
democracy within the
affairs of the College”.
11,828 Doctors
in ontario
1992
Canada’s first female
astronaut, Dr. Roberta
Bondar, receives the CPSO
President’s Award.
The College registers
Doctor #100,000: Dr.
Alaina Aguanno of
London, Ontario.
2016
The College
marks 150 years
of regulating the
practice of medicine.
35,000 Doctors
in ontario
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