Sophia M. MylesUniversity of Toronto | U of T · Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation
Sophia M. Myles
Doctor of Philosophy
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Background
Virtual care is transforming the nature of healthcare, particularly with the accelerated shift to telehealth and virtual care during the COVID-19 pandemic. Health profession regulators face intense pressures to safely facilitate this type of healthcare while upholding their legislative mandate to protect the public. Challenges for health...
This article has three aims. First, to reflect on how conceptualizations of the public interest may have shifted due to COVID-19. Second, to focus on the implications of regulatory responses for the health workforce and corresponding lessons as health leaders and systems transition from pandemic response to pandemic recovery. Third, to identify how...
Technology is transforming service delivery in many health professions, particularly with the rapid shift to virtual care during the COVID-19 pandemic. Health profession regulators must navigate legal and ethical complexities to facilitate virtual care while upholding their mandate to protect the public interest. The objectives of this scoping revi...
Background
There is little evidence to show what scope of practice (SOP) means from the point of view of family physicians, how family physicians think about their SOP as it changes over time, or what factors shape and influence their SOP. Understanding family physician perspectives on SOP and the factors that influence it can aid our understanding...
Background: Virtual care is transforming the nature of healthcare, particularly with the accelerated shift to telehealth and virtual care during the COVID-19 pandemic. Health profession regulators face intense pressures to safely facilitate this type of healthcare while upholding their legislative mandate to protect the public. Challenges for healt...
Virtual practice is transforming work in many professions, particularly with the accelerated shift to virtual work during the COVID-19 pandemic. Professional regulators face intense pressures to facilitate this work while upholding their legal mandate to protect the public. Challenges for professional regulators have included providing practice gui...
This report addresses the priority theme "Amplify the meaning and implications of scope of practice for physicians" within The Future of Medical Education in Canada CPD Initiative.
Objective:
To describe and compare the scope of practice (SoP) of GPs and FPs between the rural northern, rural southern, urban northern, and urban southern regions of Ontario.
Design:
Cross-sectional retrospective analysis of the 2013 College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario official register and annual membership renewal survey data.
Set...
In this article, we reflected on the notion that an evolving healthcare system requires evolving professional regulation to keep pace with system growth and change. The importance of interprofessional and patient-centred care for Ontario's healthcare system is clear. However, the profession specificity of the system is strongly embedded through Ont...
Compared to their urban counterparts, rural and remote inhabitants experience lower life expectancy and poorer health status. Nowhere is the worldwide shortage of health professionals more pronounced than in rural areas of developing countries. Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) includes a disproportionately large number of developing countries; therefore, t...
This study aimed to investigate the relationship between participation in different types of continuing professional development (CPD), and incidences and types of public complaint against physicians.
Cases included physicians against whom complaints were made by members of the public to the medical regulatory body in Ontario, Canada, the College o...
Purpose:
To investigate the relationship between physicians' performance, as evaluated through in-practice peer assessments, and their participation in continuing professional development (CPD).
Method:
The authors examined the predictive effects of participating in the CPD programs of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and t...
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Project (1)
Broadly, the purpose of this research is to achieve a more comprehensive understanding of the term scope of practice within medicine in Canada, with a focus on family practice in Ontario. The specific objective of this research is to determine the common conceptual elements of scope of practice, where the differences lie, and the implications of these differences for health policy, physician regulation, continuing professional development, and practice.
