REPORTS FROM COUNCIL
Public Member Presidents New Member Orientation
Council reviewed a proposal to facilitate the
election of public members to the position of
College President.
While existing provisions in College By-Laws
permit the election of any member of Council
as College President and Vice-President, this
is not well known. There is a well-established
process in place and an assumption that once a
physician is elected to the Executive Commit-
tee, they will automatically progress to Vice-
President and then President.
Council decided that the Executive Com-
mittee will continue to be composed of six
members, but a new minimum of two public
members and a minimum of two physician
members will be instituted. This change will
need to be reflected in the College bylaw.
The Past President will continue to serve
as a member of the Executive Committee
and the current Vice-President will generally
progress to be President.
The Vice-President will generally be elected
from the other public or physician members
of the current Executive Committee or from
public or physician members of Council who
have served on the Executive Committee dur-
ing their current term on Council. This will
not be written in the College By-laws, but
this approach will be clearly communicated to
ensure awareness and transparency.
These changes are expected to go into effect
in 2019. Council has approved a proposal requiring
new applicants to engage in education related
to professionalism and professional regula-
tion. As a condition of new members being
granted their first certificate of practice in
Ontario, they will need to become familiar
with issues related to boundary violations and
sexual abuse prevention. Council also directed
staff to develop a plan for the training to be
provided to the entire profession.
Many other Canadian regulators – includ-
ing at least three medical regulatory au-
thorities (Quebec, Alberta and Saskatchewan)
– have educational requirements for new
applicants and/or current members related to
the laws, regulations and policies that govern
a regulated health profession.
Four District 10 Physicians
Acclaimed to Council
Four Toronto-area physicians were recently
acclaimed as members of Council: Dr. Philip
Berger; Dr. Haidar Mahmoud, Dr. Peeter
Poldre and Dr. Patrick Safieh.
Drs. Mahmoud and Poldre are returning
to Council. While Drs. Berger and Safieh
are new to the Council table, they have been
active in College committees. Dr. Safieh is
the current co-chair of the Quality Assurance
Committee.
We will provide more information about
these physicians and those physicians who are
successful in the election held in District 5 on
October 10th.
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