Serving the public by guiding the medical profession

Revalidation: Challenges

Trevor Theman MD

Registrar

Serving the public by guiding the medical profession

Serving the public by guiding the medical profession

challenges

• Cost

• Responsibility (who does what?)

• Access to tools – Access to information (e.g. databases)

– Measurement tools

• Access to education/remediation

• Physician acceptance & participation

Serving the public by guiding the medical profession

The biggest challenge!

• Know what you want to achieve – What is the goal?

– Summative or formative?

– High stakes or not?

– Generalist or practice-specific?

– Applies to all (the rising tide…) or just to those

identified (let’s find the bad apples…)?

– QI or QA?

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What was our goal?

To develop a pan-Canadian strategy for physician practice improvement to assist:

a) all practicing physicians in identifying opportunities for improvement;

b) all medical regulatory authorities in identifying physicians who may benefit from focused assessment and enhancement; and

c) all stakeholder organizations in identifying their roles and responsibilities in physician performance enhancement.

Serving the public by guiding the medical profession

PPI (physician practice

improvement)