Public policy, submissions, and responses

The CMPA monitors emerging issues that impact physicians and provides a medical liability perspective to support development of good public policies.

Medical liability

• The medico-legal lens on AI use by Canadian physicians (September 2024)
• White paper—Integrating virtual care in practice: Medico-legal considerations for safe medical care (August 2022)
• Urgent Need for Critical Care Triage Protocol [PDF] (May 2021)
• Providing medico-legal support for physicians in relation to the Critical Care Triage Protocol (April 2021)
• Joint statement on liability protection for physicians and employed professionals of B.C. health care agencies covered under HCPP in collaborative care models [PDF] (May 2019)
• CMPA/CNPS joint statement on liability protection for nurse practitioners and physicians in collaborative practice [PDF] (June 2017)

Physician wellness

• Joint statement of the CMPA, CPSO, and the Physician Health Program of the OMA on the distress and suicide recognition and response project (January 2021)

Technology and privacy

• CMPA Member Advice: Nova Scotia, Privacy and Confidentiality Obligations (January 2017)