The following statuses indicate the current stage of an application throughout the review and approval process, as well as the actions available to applicants at each stage.
Examples of personal development include:
“Set personal goals with my leader when completing my annual review and teaching evaluations to improve my communication and teamwork”
“Set personal goals when debriefed following a 360 evaluation to improve my leadership ability”
“Reflect on and make changes to improve my work life balance after completion of a burn out assessment”
“Reflect and set SMART goals based on feedback from patient surveys to enhance my communication skills”
Quality improvement activity examples:
CPSA Group Practice Review (GPR)
CPSA Patient Record Content Review – Physician Self-Review or Peer Review
CPSA Standard of Practice Review – Referral Consultation
Quality improvement methods are processes used to assess data, identify gaps, develop an action plan for change and measure whether those changes produce the desired improvements. For example:
Performance data
Screening data
Adherence to reporting standards
Feedback data from teaching
Patient outcomes data
Audit of processes of clinical care
Health Quality Council of Alberta (HQCA) data
Electronic Medical Record (EMR) data
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