Cpso.on.ca College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontariio, Canada.
Title
The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario
Description
Doctors in Ontario have been granted a degree of authority for self-regulation under provincial law. The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario is the body that regulates the practice of medicine to protect and serve the public interest.
This system of self-regulation is based on the premise that the College must act first and foremost in the interest of the public. All doctors in Ontario must be members of the College in order to practise medicine. The duties of the College include:
- issuing certificates of registration to doctors to allow them to practise medicine
- monitoring and maintaining standards of practice through peer assessment and remediation
- investigating complaints about doctors on behalf of the public, and
- conducting discipline hearings when doctors may have committed an act of professional misconduct or incompetence.
The role of the College and its authority and powers are set out in the Regulated Health Professions Act (RHPA), the Health Professions Procedural Code under the RHPA and the Medicine Act.
Address
- 80 College Street
- Toronto, Ontario
- M5G 2E2
Contact
- College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario
- Telephone: 416-967-2603
- Fax: 416-961-3330
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