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Why a Multi-Source Feedback System?
E-Delivery of Insights
Leadership Transition
Change of Name
Pandemic Preparation
Suspended Members
Unauthorized Practice
Why a Multi-Source Feedback System?
The College is moving towards the implementation of a practice assessment system for the profession in 2007. A full communication program for members about the College's proposed system will unfold over the course of this year. As a reminder, practice assessment involves evaluating how people in a profession actually perform their responsibilities or essential competencies in practice. Some health regulatory colleges already have practice assessments in effect for their professions. Our process has been to create and test thoroughly an approach that helps MRTs either validate their clinical accomplishments or determine steps they can take to improve their own professional practice. It compares the MRT's clinical performance to that of other MRTs.
Moreover, the College worked at coming up with what is called a “multi-source feedback” model because it allows for a thorough and fair assessment, incorporating views from the MRT as well as the MRT's peers, co-workers and patients. The system we are working on encourages feedback on a variety of factors which are now being considered part of clinical competence, including humanity, collegiality, patient management and personal communication.
However, many of you may still be wondering why we have created a practice assessment model in the first place. The easy answer is that the College is required by legislation to create some form of practice assessment. But there are a number of other good reasons why any health care profession which takes its role seriously - as MRTs do - would want to ensure that its members actually practise to the standards agreed to by the whole profession.
MRTs will tell you, for example, that for a variety of reasons - new technologies, changed patient expectations, pressures for increased workplace efficiencies - professional practice has become more complex. It is, therefore, more difficult for many MRTs to determine how their clinical performance compares to the performance of their peers.
It is also evident in a number of ways that the public expects health care professionals to be more accountable in their roles, as well as in how they are treated as individual patients.
These are good explanations for creating a system that each MRT can use to assess his or her clinical competence. And a feedback system can make a difference. Participants in the pilot study of the College's multi-source feedback system said they will consider making changes as a result of what they found out from the feedback; for example, 41.4% said they may consider or will likely change the way they participate as a member of the health care team; 36.6% said they may consider or will likely change their acknowledgment of the psychological aspects of illness. Those who participated in the study evidently see the benefits of ensuring their clinical practice compares favourably to the practice of their peers.
In subsequent issues of Insights, the College will describe the multi-source feedback system in greater depth, and provide details about the schedule for introducing it into our Quality Assurance program in 2007.
E-Delivery of Insights
Latest statistics about computer accessibility in Ontario are telling. Nearly 80% of Ontarians now have computers available to them at home (Statistics Canada 2003). Internet-based communication is increasingly becoming the norm for most organizations in North America and Europe. The Internet is efficient and less expensive than paper-based methods of communication. It facilitates exciting and immediate new ways to communicate with people, and provides opportunities to structure more interactivity.
The College is also increasingly taking advantage of web-based communication to reach members. In addition to significant upgrades to the College's web site, as part of its digital communication transformation strategy, the College continues to encourage members to sign up for e-delivery of Insights. You will be able to have Insights (as well as the annual report and other College publications) delivered to you electronically as soon as it is completed, without the delay and cost to the College of mail distribution.
Signing up is easy. Just go to the College's web site (www.cmrto.org) and click on the 'E-DELIVERY (INSIGHTS)' tab at the very top of the page.
Leadership Transition
Plans are developing for retiring College Registrar, Sharon Saberton, and Registrar-designate, Linda Gough to travel together around the province this fall to introduce the multi-source feedback system and to introduce Linda to College members who have not had a chance yet to meet or work with her over the last ten years in her role as Deputy Registrar.
Look for further information about this series of workshops later this spring, and plan to meet Linda and Sharon in your region in the fall.
Change of Name
In order to change your name in the CMRTO register, members are now required to complete the Change of Name form and submit it to the College with the required evidence of change of name. The new Change of Name form is available on the College's web site (www.cmrto.org) or from the College, upon request. Members are required to notify the College of a change of name within seven days of the change. Once the Registrar is satisfied that the name change is valid, the member's name in the register will be changed and the College will send a replacement registration card by mail.
Pandemic Preparation
Hospitals and clinics throughout Ontario as well as the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care are developing detailed plans to manage the clinical care needed should the province suffer the impact of a pandemic.
As frontline health care professionals, MRTs should ensure they are aware of - or even involved in - the development of pandemic plans in their health care facility. MRTs can access the latest emergency health bulletins published by the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care through a link in the 'Resource Room' on the College's web site (www.cmrto.org).
Suspended Members
The following are the people whose certificates of registration were suspended between October 8, 2005 and February 17, 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.
| 04915 |
Beneteau, Mary-Alice |
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Cheng, Wai Man |
| 04841 |
Katz, Judith E. |
| 12195 |
Kishore, Susan Sheila |
| 10645 |
Lindberg, Devorah Ann |
| 11378 |
Taycher, Gary |
| 11981 |
Tongs, Cathal David |
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Unauthorized Practice
After investigating a report of unauthorized practice, the College applied to the Ontario Superior Court of Justice for an order under section 87 of the Health Professions Procedural Code (Schedule 2 of the Regulated Health Professions Act, 1991).
On February 16, 2006, Justice E.B. Minden of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice issued an order directing Nadine Caroline Elizabeth Deacon (Ms. Deacon) to comply with the provisions of section 9(3) of the Medical Radiation Technology Act, 1991 and section 5(1) of the Healing Arts Radiation Protection Act. The order sets outs that Ms. Deacon is restrained from holding herself out as a person who is qualified to practise in Ontario as a medical radiation technologist and is also restrained from performing any acts which may only be performed by a person who is qualified to practise in Ontario as a medical radiation technologist. The court ordered Ms. Deacon to pay a portion of the College's costs fixed at $3,000.00.
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