looking ahead
recognition that lower risk matters won’t need this same with peer assessors. A comprehensive evaluation will
level of intensity.
accompany the launch of these new tools to ensure
To be good at controlling risk in the long-term
operational efficiency and to assess the impact of
means that we can spot emerging problems early
assessment on physician practice improvement.
and suppress them before they do harm. It takes a
We are also participating in a pan-Canadian
considerable amount of analytic vigilance to be good
initiative to understand the factors associated with
at this and not surprisingly, Sparrow recommends that
good physician practice. The “Physician Factors”
regulators act more like epidemiologists, and enlist
initiative, in collaboration with the Federation of
relevant partners who can help spot
Medical Regulatory Authorities
concerning trends.
of Canada and other provincial
I look forward to telling you
medical regulatory authorities,
more about our risk mitigation
will develop consistent evidence
We will continue
approaches in in future issues of
to enable greater effectiveness and
Dialogue.
efficiency for physician assessment
to advance
programming across the country.
evidence-based
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With our analytic capacity, the
approaches to
As you will have read in
CPSO is a key contributor to this
programming,
this annual report, we’ve taken
body of knowledge, which will be
decision-making
significant steps in making more
disseminated over the next year.
and
assessment.
information available to the public
Many medical education
about physicians.
initiatives across the College are
Our focus over the next year
also underway and will continue,
will be to take a deeper look at how
including the creation of a framework
information about physicians is made available. This will to understand the constructs and effectiveness of
involve a review of our website to ensure that information educational decision-making by CPSO committees,
is clear, easy to find and helpful to the public.
an initiative to understand the educational needs
As well, we want to improve and expand on the
of physicians in Ontario, and the integration of the
information we provide about the workings of the
CanMeds Framework into CPSO programs.
College, its processes and decision-making, so that what
And lastly, work on our data and information
we do is more transparent.
management strategy has just begun, with a mandate to
In the coming months, we will also continue to
create a principled approach to data collection and data
advance evidence-based approaches to programming,
analysis at CPSO. The data strategy will take shape over
decision-making and assessment. We look forward to
the next few months and will be in full swing in 2017.
the launch of new CPSO peer assessment tools and
I look forward to bringing you updates about each of
protocols which have been designed in collaboration
these initiatives throughout the next year.
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