Newly-minted NOSM graduate Dr. Joshua Dias receives his diploma from Laurentian
University president Dominic Giroux with NOSM staff member, Sally Monague.
Registering Qualified Doctors
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atients trust doctors with their lives. They need to have confidence that doctors are competent.
It is a core responsibility of this College to ensure the public that
only qualified, competent and ethical physicians are licensed to
practise medicine in this province. As part of our review, we look
at an applicant’s education, training and experience. We also ensure there are no concerns about behaviour, health or performance
that could prevent the physician from safely caring for patients.
It is a core responsibility
of this College to ensure
the public that only
qualified, competent
and ethical physicians
are licensed to practise
medicine in this province.
Our job, of course, is to ensure that individual physicians are
qualified to practise. But in recent years, we have also looked
closely at system issues that would prevent members of the public
from receiving quality care.
For many years, for example, we worked with government, medical schools and others to find workable solutions to physician
resource challenges in Ontario. One result of this collaboration
was the development of College policies that provided greater opportunities to physicians to qualify to practise medicine, without
compromising our existing standards of registration.
While we are pleased with the progress made, there continues to
be a strong need for physician resource planning.
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