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Changes on Council
Election Results
Invitation to the Fall 2006 Workshops on Practice Assessment
Multi-Source Feedback Q&A
HPRAC Report
Suspended Members
Excellent Returns from College Online Services Survey
College Annual Report Now Online
Reminder... Council Meeting Highlights on the Web
Reminder... E-Delivery of Insights
Summary of Discipline Decision
Changes on Council
With the retirement of Sheila Robson as President (more about Sheila’s contributions
will appear in a subsequent issue of Insights) and Jackie Dix stepping down as
Vice-President, two experienced members of Council have assumed these roles:
David Price becomes President and Tammy Urso, Vice-President effective
July 14, 2006.
Introducing David Price
Currently Director of Diagnostic Imaging at The Queensway Carleton Hospital in
Ottawa, David has experience in diagnostic imaging as a medical radiation technologist
and imaging consultant going back to 1985. A member of Council since 2003, he is
also an active member of the Canadian College of Health Service Executives.
Having worked in nine different health care institutions, he has obtained extensive
operational job knowledge, and people, policy and procedure skills related to our
profession. His involvement in three different teaching and community facility
amalgamations and numerous imaging consulting projects rounds out his knowledge
and understanding in both the technical and management aspects of diagnostic services.
David is also skilled in team development in both technical and support services,
process re-design, functional program planning, project management, and
financial management.
Introducing Tammy Urso
Tammy graduated from the nuclear medicine program of the Toronto Institute of Medical
Technology in 1986 and immediately joined the Sudbury General Hospital (which is now
part of the Sudbury Regional Hospital) as a nuclear medicine technologist.
Designated a radiation safety officer in 1988, she became the charge technologist and
radiation safety officer in March 2000, a position she still maintains. The Department
of Diagnostic Imaging at the Sudbury Regional Hospital is the referral centre in Northern
Ontario. She is currently also the non-union representative on the fiscal advisory
committee of the Sudbury General Hospital.
Tammy is a camper, quilter, avid hockey mom and supporter of her daughter at
equestrian events.
Election Results
In recent Council elections, David Price was re-elected by acclamation as the Council
member for Electoral District #2 and Donna Lewis was acclaimed in Electoral District #5.
Congratulations to both candidates.
Invitation to the Fall 2006 Workshops on Practice Assessment
In June, all members of the College should
have received an invitation in the Spring
edition of Insights to a series of workshops
being held across the province in
October 2006.
Linda Gough, Registrar-designate, and
Sharon Saberton, Registrar, will be
conducting these workshops to introduce
the implementation of the multi-source
feedback system. The workshops will also
be an opportunity for College members to
meet Linda and to discuss other issues
of importance such as authorizing
mechanisms and delegation for regulated
health professionals in Ontario to facilitate
inter-professional care and patient safety,
as well as registration issues such as
practising in MRI and maintaining
your certificate of registration.
Workshop dates and locations:
Sudbury
(Sharon Saberton and Linda Gough)
October 3, 2006
7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Howard Johnson Plaza Hotel
50 Brady Street
Thunder Bay
(Sharon Saberton and Linda Gough)
October 4, 2006
7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Valhalla Inn
1 Valhalla Inn Road
London
(Sharon Saberton and Linda Gough)
October 10, 2006
7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Four Points Sheraton London
Hotel & Suites
1150 Wellington Road South
Toronto
(Sharon Saberton and Linda Gough)
October 12, 2006
7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Holiday Inn Toronto Yorkdale
3450 Dufferin Street
Ottawa
(Linda Gough)
October 18, 2006
7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Lord Elgin Hotel
100 Elgin Street
Multi-Source Feedback Q&A
This is the third in a series of articles about
the College’s new multi-source feedback
system which will be implemented in
early 2007. This new form of practice
assessment involves evaluating how people
in the profession actually perform their
responsibilities or essential competencies
in practice by comparing the MRT’s
clinical performance to that of other
MRTs. This type of practice assessment
is fairly common now in other health
professions and business in general.
As everyone becomes more familiar
with the new practice assessment system
a number of questions are arising.
We will begin to answer some of
these questions here.
Some of the questions that might be in
peoples’ minds:
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What if I don’t have patients to whom I can give the patient questionnaire?
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Educators, application specialists, and
managers in particular may have no direct
patient contact and will, therefore, have
difficulty fulfilling this requirement of the
multi-source feedback system. The College
is exploring the notion of requiring these
College members to submit their Self-
Assessment Profile, Continuous Learning
Portfolio and related Quality Assurance
records as an alternative.
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What if I don’t work in a team so I
don’t have immediate co-workers or an
MRT who can be asked to fill out the
co-worker or peer questionnaires?
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The multi-source feedback model
requires a minimum of three peers and
three co-workers to fill out the assessment
questionnaires. For those who don’t work
in a team, you can have other MRTs who
know your work fill in the peer assessment
questionnaires. At least three professional
colleagues such as a receptionist or
physician who knows your work may
fill in the co-worker assessment
questionnaires. The College will work
with an MRT who is in this position
and has been selected to have his or
her multi-source feedback reviewed to
determine appropriate co-workers
or peers.
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Can’t the number of patients required to
complete the questionnaire be lowered
from 25 since it is difficult to find that
many to do so?
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The patient assessment questionnaire is,
of course, an essential part of our new
practice assessment model. Most of the
MRTs who participated in the pilot study
of the multi-source feedback system did not
feel the required number of patients was a
major problem. However, the College
will consider processing the patient
assessment questionnaires if the number
is somewhat lower than 25, depending
on the circumstances.
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Will I still have to maintain my Self-
Assessment Profile, Continuous
Learning Portfolio and related Quality
Assurance records?
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Yes, an up-to-date Self-Assessment Profile,
Continuous Learning Portfolio and related
Quality Assurance records is required by
regulation to be completed each year. If
you are randomly selected for an assessment
of your Quality Assurance records, you will
have to submit your Self-Assessment
Profile, Continuous Learning Portfolio
and related Quality Assurance records
to the Quality Assurance Committee,
for review.
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What if my patients can’t speak English?
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Perhaps a family member who does speak
English can be asked to assist in filling out
the questionnaire.
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Should a review of the multi-source
feedback assessment identify a need for
remediation with respect to a MRT’s
knowledge, skills and judgement related
to the practice of medical radiation
technology, what can we expect?
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A number of remediation tools are being
considered – including, an individual
practice assessment, mentoring, or working
collaboratively with the College to address
any identified learning need – although no
decisions have been made and the
approach is still open for discussion.
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HPRAC Report
In the spring of 2006, the Health
Professions Regulatory Advisory Council
(HPRAC) released a report called
Regulation of Health Professions in
Ontario: New Directions. The Ministry
of Health and Long-Term Care gave all
stakeholders, including the regulatory
colleges, until June 30, 2006 to
provide their reactions to the report’s
recommendations.
The CMRTO provided a thorough and
detailed response to the recommendations
in the HPRAC report, including specifying
which recommendations it supported and
those about which it had concerns.
Suspended Members
The following are the people whose
certificates of registration were suspended
between April 15, 2006 and July 31,
2006 for failure to pay their fees in
accordance with section 24 of the Health
Professions Procedural Code. A person
whose certificate of registration has been
suspended is not a member of the College
unless and until the suspension is removed.
| Girard, Greg |
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| McLardy, Jennifer L. |
09314 |
| Saunders, Sharon A. |
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| Budden, Jeff |
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| Tan, Hung |
10998 |
| Stout, Scott |
11432 |
| Low, Poh Mun (Albert) |
12304 |
| Sanchez, Raul |
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Excellent Returns from College Online Services Survey
In early June, the College sent a survey
to all members to gather your views
on offering more services online. The
survey asked a number of questions
about payment methods and web site
enhancements. The return rate for the
survey was excellent, with approximately
32% of members completing the survey.
College Annual Report Now Online
Once again, the College is pleased to
announce that the 2005 Annual Report is
online. The annual report is one of our
most important channels for providing
information to you about how the College
works and the accomplishments it makes
on your behalf each year.
The annual report is available in HTML
and PDF formats at www.cmrto.org. Any
member who prefers to have his or her own
printed copy, will receive one by mail
on request. Just give us a call at either
(416) 975-4353 or 1 800-563-5847.
Reminder... Council Meeting Highlights on the Web
A calendar of upcoming Council meeting
dates and agendas as well as highlights of
recent Council meetings are posted on the
College’s web site.
Council meeting information and highlights
can be accessed here.
Reminder... E-Delivery of Insights
Because the Internet is efficient and less
expensive than paper-based methods of
communication, the College would like
once again to encourage members to sign
up for e-delivery of Insights. You will be
able to have Insights delivered to you
electronically as soon as it is completed,
without the delay and cost to the College
of mail distribution.
Click here to sign up.
Summary of Discipline Decision
Karen Bickford
On June 12, 2006 a discipline hearing was
held to consider allegations of professional
misconduct brought against Karen
Bickford. It was alleged that from June 14,
2004 to January 11, 2005 Ms. Bickford:
- Held herself out as a member of the
CMRTO, when she was not;
- Worked as a radiation therapist in
Ontario without being properly registered
as a member of the CMRTO; and
- Applied ionizing radiation without being
properly registered as a member of the
CMRTO.
Ms. Bickford pleaded guilty to all three
charges of professional misconduct and
the panel of the Discipline Committee
accepted her guilty plea. The panel ordered
that Ms. Bickford be reprimanded, that the
fact of the reprimand appear on the register
and that a term, condition and limitation
be placed on Ms. Bickford’s certificate of
registration that she successfully complete
the CMRTO Legislation Learning Package
within 12 months, to the satisfaction of
the Registrar.
In reaching its decision regarding the
appropriate penalty, the panel considered
the seriousness of the offence while
recognizing a number of mitigating factors
including the fact that Ms. Bickford had
not worked as a professional for a period
of 4 1/2 months as a result of her conduct
and therefore had already suffered
significant financial loss. The panel
also took into account the fact that
Ms. Bickford had tried unsuccessfully to
transfer her registration from another
province to Ontario, that she was not
asked to furnish proof of registration at the
time of her employment and that she took
steps to rectify the situation when she
became aware of it. The panel also took
into account that Ms. Bickford had a
lengthy unblemished career as an MRT
prior to this incident and indicated no
intended malice.
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