Committees

Question 1

Identify at least 5 committees under the college that is part of its’ regulating body.

Answer 1

Executive Committee
Registration Committee
Inquiries, Complaints and Reports Committee
Discipline Committee.
Fitness to Practise Committee
Quality Assurance Committee
Patient Relations Committee [Client Relations]

Question 2

What committee is responsible for developing educational requirements for members, and guidelines for the professional interaction between members and clients?

Answer 2

The Client (Patient) Relations Committee

Question 3

This committee should investigate on all complaints e.g. direct or referred by other committees [QA]

Answer 3

Inquiries, Complaints, and Reports Committee [ICRC]

Question 4

The members of the College Council are appointed by _________________.

Answer 4

**Ministry of Health **

Question 5

This committee manages the business of the college between council meetings and also reports on all its actions to the council at the next council meeting.

Answer 5

Executive Committee

Question 6

What committee develops programmes or initiatives for promoting public knowledge and understanding about the College’s sexual abuse prevention plan?

Answer 6

Client (Patient) Relations Committee

Question 7

What are the minimum requirements for quality assurance program?

Answer 7

**Continuing education
Self and peer assessments
A mechanism for the College to monitor members’ participation in the quality assurance program **

Question 8

The Discipline Committee holds hearings of allegations of members’ professional misconduct, abuse or incompetence referred by _____________.

Answer 8

Inquiries, Complaints and Reports Committee [ICRC]

Question 9

What committee is responsible in making judgments and orders for revocations or suspensions of members’ certificates of registration or order impositions of terms, conditions and limitations on members’ certificates?

Answer 9

Discipline Committee

Question 10

This committee is tasked to evaluate foreign trained applicants for admission to the registration examination and other “non-standard” applications including inactive members requesting return to a general certificate.

Answer 10

**Registration Committee **

Question 11

What committee is responsible to hear any matter concerning the capacity of a member (physical or mental) referred to it as well as to render decisions concerning members’ capacity to practise?

Answer 11

Fitness to Practise Committee

Question 12

This committee requires individual members whose knowledge, skill and judgment have been assessed and found to be unsatisfactory to participate in specified continuing education or remediation programs.

Answer 12

Quality Assurance Committee

Question 13

If the _____________ is of the opinion that the member may have committed an act of professional misconduct or may be incompetent, the committee shall disclose the name of the member and allegations against the member.

Answer 13

Quality Assurance Committee

Question 14

According to ___________, each health profession is to have a series of councils and committees as part of its’ regulating body.

Answer 14

RHPA Section 10 Subsection 1

Question 15

This Committee’s task is to hear all appeals related to the examinations and render fair and objective decisions within the framework of College policy, the Regulations and the RHPA.

Answer 15

**Appeals Committee **

Question 16

The Patient Relations Program and Funding Program must include _______________, ____________, ____________, and ______________.

Answer 16

**Educational requirements for members;
Guidelines for the conduct of members with their patients;
Training for the College’s staff; and
The provision of information to the public **