Advice to the Profession

Some Standards of Practice are more complex than others. To provide you with support and to help ensure our expectations are clear and reasonable, we've developed several Advice to the Profession documents as an additional resource for your practice.

About Advice to the Profession

Advice to the Profession documents are dynamic and may be edited or updated for clarity at any time. Please refer back to these articles regularly to ensure you are aware of the most recent advice. Major changes will be communicated to our members; however, minor edits may only be noted within the documents.

For more information or achived documents, contact our Standards of Practice Advisor

About Advice to the Profession

Advice to the Profession: COVID-19

COVID-19: Defining "Urgent"

COVID-19: Difficult Practice Decisions

COVID-19: Reopening Practice

COVID-19: Virtual Care

Advice to the Profession

Advertising

Boundary Violations: Personal

Boundary Violations: Sexual

Cannabis for Medical Purposes

Charging for Uninsured Professional Services

Closing or Leaving a Medical Practice

Continuity of Care

Duty to Report a Colleague/Self

Electronic Communications & Security of Mobile Devices

Episodic Care

Informed Consent for Adults

Informed Consent for Minors

Insured Persons

Job Action

Legislated Reporting & Release of Medical Information

Lost or Stolen Patient Records

Medical Assistance in Dying

Medical Examinations by Non-Treating Physicians (NTMEs)

Medical Practice Observation Experience

Physicians as Custodians of Patient Records

Prescribing: Administration

Prescribing: Drugs Associated with Substance Use Disorder or Substance-Related Harm

Professional Courtesy

Referral Consultation

Relocating a Medical Practice

Responsibility for a Medical Practice

Safe Prescribing for Opioid Use Disorder

Social Media

Telemedicine

Questions about our Advice to the Profession? Contact our Standards of Practice Advisor.

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