Professional Obligations and Human Rights – Preliminary Consultation

Tell us what you think:

We want you to help us update our current Professional Obligations and Human Rights policy.

This policy sets out sets out physicians’ legal and professional obligations under the Ontario Human Rights Code along with professional expectations that address instances where physicians limit the services they provide for reasons of clinical competence and conscience or religion.

An Advice to the Profession: Professional Obligations and Human Rights document also accompanies the policy, providing general advice or guidance on specific practice issues.

View the current policy and Advice document.

 Provide your feedback through our online survey.

View the feedback received through our online discussion page.

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Have your say:

We want to hear your thoughts on the current policy. For example, some general questions we have include:

• Does the current policy protect and serve the public interest?

• Does the current policy contain practical expectations for physicians?   

• What issues related to professional obligations and human rights are physicians and the public looking to CPSO to provide guidance or set out additional expectations for?

Or please answer the specific questions we have in our online survey regarding the current policy content (click here to download the PDF list of questions).

Please provide your feedback by May 14, 2021.

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Next Steps:

Your feedback is important to us. Your comments will be carefully reviewed and used to help us evaluate the current policy.

CPSO Council will ultimately determine what policy revisions will be made when finalizing and approving the policy.

Thank you for participating!