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successful , the certificate will automatically expire by the nature of its terms on the first failed attempt .
More information will be available in Spring / Summer 2017 as the program development is completed .
Fee increases approved The College has approved increases for several fees at the College , including the annual membership fee for the year beginning June 1 , 2017 . The 1.88 % increase would bring the fee that a physician pays to renew a certificate of registration for independent practice from $ 1,595 to $ 1,625 . Council also voted to increase the Certificate of Professional Conduct fee from $ 50 to $ 75 ( this fee has not been increased since 2008 ); increase the fee for an application for a certificate of registration for a post-graduate license from 10 % of the membership fee to 25 %; and increase the fee for an application for a certificate of registration for an independent practice from 50 % of the membership fee to 60 %. Council also voted to establish an expedited review service fee for those registration applications that meet the requirements of the regulation . Applicants who wish to expedite the initial assessment of such applications to less than three weeks will have the option to do so with the new fee . MD
New Public Member
Geraldine Sparrow
The College welcomes the Honourable Madam Justice Geraldine Sparrow , former justice of the Ontario Court of Justice , as a new public member of Council .
Ms . Sparrow was called to the bar in 1979 after receiving a Bachelor of Common Law from McGill University . She worked as crown Counsel from 1980 to 1992 , in both civil and criminal litigation .
In 1990 , she studied environmental and constitutional law at University of California , Berkeley School of Law .
Ms . Sparrow presided as a judge from 1993 to January 2017 . Since 2005 , Ms . Sparrow has been a member of the Research Ethics Board at St . Michael ’ s Hospital in Toronto .
She lives in Toronto . photo : claudia hung
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