Medical Expert Role Resources

Please note this selection is not meant to be comprehensive or complete, and inclusion is not necessarily an endorsement by the CPSO.

Peer Support

• Primary Care Academic Detailing Service, Centre for Effective Practice
  One-on-one visits, tailored discussions on different clinical topic areas. Topics include: COPD, Type 2 diabetes, anxiety and depression, and fall prevention and management.
• The Foundation for Medical Practice Education offers two programs:
  • The Small Group Practice-Based Learning Program (previously called PBSG) helps family physicians develop a supportive network in which group members meet regularly to discuss problem-based modules in a way that facilitates change in knowledge, attitudes, and skills. Topics cover a wide array of primary care practice issues.
  • The Individual Practice-Based Learning Program is based on the same educational principles as the group learning program, but designed for individual physicians who cannot, or prefer not to, meet in an ongoing group setting.
•  Project ECHO
  Links expert inter-professional teams at an academic hub with primary care providers in local communities. Primary care providers become part of a learning and support community, where they receive mentoring and feedback from the team of experts. Variety of topics.

Courses, eLearning Modules

• Advanced Diagnostic Reasoning, Canadian Medical Protective Association
  Workshop explores skills and behaviours to help physicians identify situations associated with a higher incidence of diagnostic decision-making errors and act to prevent them. Strategies covered help participants identify and address information gaps; raise and maintain situational awareness; and enhance decision-making and safety of care.
• Buprenorphine-Naloxone Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder Online Course, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH)
  Presents a framework for providing maintenance treatment for opioid use disorder with buprenorphine, including its use in a primary care setting.
• Infection Prevention and Control Core Competencies Online Learning Course, Public Health Ontario (requires sign-in)
  Series of modules helping learners improve their IPAC knowledge to decrease the risk of transmission of infection in health care.
• Informed Consent eLearning Module, Canadian Medical Protective Association
  Outlines three key elements of a valid informed consent, physicians’ legal obligations to communicate to patients, and the importance of discussing and documenting risks related to prescribing medications.
• Opioid Use Disorder Treatment (OUDT) Online Course, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH)
  Prepares learners to effectively and safely manage the treatment of clients receiving methadone or buprenorphine for opioid use disorder.
• Opioids Clinical Primer eLearning Modules, machealth, Division of e-Learning Innovation, Michael G DeGroote School of Medicine, McMaster University
  Six courses organized into two streams, Managing Opioid Use Disorder and Managing Chronic Pain.
• Theatre Arts: Surgical Safety Course, Canadian Medical Protective Association
  Two-day intensive course designed to empower physicians and their perioperative teams to improve their operating room environment and foster a culture of safe surgical care.

Guidelines, Reference Documents

• Anti-infective Guidelines for Community-acquired Infections, MUMS Health (available for purchase)
  Provides guidance on managing community-acquired infections and when necessary assisting in the selection of appropriate antibiotics
• Clinical Handbooks for Quality-Based Procedures, Health Quality Ontario
  Health Quality Ontario has developed a number of Clinical Handbooks to support Ontario’s Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care’s Quality-Based Procedures strategy. The Quality-Based Procedures strategy combines the introduction of new hospital funding models with clinical best practice recommendations for specific patient populations.
  Each Clinical Handbook contains a description of the patient population with a set of recommendations on how to provide the best care possible for patients.
• Guidelines, Michael G. DeGroote National Pain Centre
  Variety of guidelines related to pain management, including medical cannabis for chronic pain, opioid prescribing, management of opioid use disorder, low back pain, headache, chronic neuropathic pain, endometriosis.
• Guidelines, Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care
  Clinical practice guidelines that support primary care providers in delivering preventive health care.
• Opioid Agonist Therapy: A Synthesis of Canadian Guidelines for Treating Opioid Use Disorder, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH)
  National clinical guideline that harmonizes existing provincial and national guidelines, evidence-based practices and expert opinions into one document aimed at providing consistent and high-quality care to people with opioid use disorder.
• Infection Prevention and Control for Clinical Office Practice Document, Provincial Infectious Diseases Advisory Committee (PIDAC)
  Best practice document was developed in collaboration with the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario to support those working in clinical office settings to minimize the risk of infection transmission in office-based practice.