MÉDUSE offers online training modules and resources for all specialist physicians. The training courses have been designed in collaboration with medical associations in order to meet physician needs.

Méduse offers competency training modules and transferable skills, such as collaborator, leader, communicator, professional, health advocate and scholar, as per the 2015 CanMEDS Framework of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.

The competencies aim to encourage specialists to gain and improve a variety of skills that are core to their practice and the delivery of quality patient care.

Learners can evaluate their knowledge with the pre-and post-tests, which are available for each course. Online learners can also share comments or read comments from fellow colleagues in the discussion forums of online courses. All the training modules offered on the e-learning platform are free for specialist doctors and accessible at all times.

Access Details

How to Access Training Modules: Sign in to the FMSQ portal and access the courses on MEDUSE.

The Programme de rétroaction personnalisée sur la pratique (PRPP) is an in-depth online assessment tool that allows Québec medical specialists to obtain feedback on their practice. The voluntary assessment was developed by the Fédération des médecins spécialistes du Québec (FMSQ).

The PRPP proposes three questionnaires aimed at the colleagues and patients of each physician. You may choose the questionnaire (or questionnaires) that will most likely inform and enlighten your thoughts on your practice:

• The colleague’s questionnaire enables the physician to obtain feedback and advice from medical and non-medical colleagues on his performance of certain CanMEDS roles. It contains 24 questions.
• The patient’s questionnaire enables the physician to obtain feedback and advice from patients on their doctor-patient relationship. It contains 17 questions.
• The clinic’s questionnaire enables the physician to obtain feedback from patients on their relationship with his support staff, as well as on the management and organisation of his practice. It contains 21 questions.

The PRPP allows various respondents to fill out questionnaires anonymously by using a unique identifier number. Assessment results are confidential and only the physician is able to access the data related to their practice. Questionnaires are available in both English and French.

Watch this short video for an overview of the PRPP process:

Accreditation

This training activity is a Section 3 multisource assessment program, as defined by the Maintenance of Certification (MOC) Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and approved by the Direction of Continuing Professional Development of the FMSQ.

Access Details

Visit the FMSQ website for more information on the Programme de rétroaction personnalisée sur la pratique (PRPP)

Building on the success of Prescribing Safely Canada pilot and the feedback, the Royal College is pleased to offer accredited modules that offer more prescribing assessments across specialties in a new engaging format. For a limited time only, please take advantage of this accredited learning opportunity to assess your prescribing skills.

Target Audience

These online modules are designed for any ophthalmologist or health care professional prescribing medication to patients. Modules assess prescribing skills of health care professionals to help reduce medication errors and promote a medical safety movement. Modules include:

• Short, thematic, case-based modules that focus on a full range of prescribing competencies
• Offered in both English and French, free of charge until April 2019
• Created for Canadian physicians across specialties to address current hot topics: Frail Client, Opioid Prescribing and Antibiotic Stewardship
• Participant can complete the online learning modules at a time of their choosing
• Participant will receive a certificate of completion, and can claim 0.5 hours of MOC Section 3 credits per module or 1 hour of Mainpro+ credit per module

Learning Objectives

Upon successful completion of the learning modules, participants will have demonstrated how to:

• Prescribe effectively and safely during commonly encountered conditions;
• Plan for pharmacologic management of commonly encountered conditions;
• Identify important prescribing information that should be communicated across the patient care trajectory

CPD Credits

This activity is an Accredited Self-Assessment Program (Section 3) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, and approved by Royal College Continuing Professional Development Unit. You may claim a maximum of 30 minutes per program (credits are automatically calculated).

This two-credit-per-hour Assessment program has been certified by the College of Family Physicians of Canada for up to 3.0 Mainpro+ credits.

Access Details

Participate in the Prescribing Safely Canada online modules through the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.

Resources that physicians use to enhance their awareness of new evidence, perspectives or findings that may be potentially relevant to their professional practice can be recorded under Section 2: Self-Learning – Scanning. Royal College Fellows may choose to pursue a Personal Learning Project (PLP) to develop an answer to a question, issue or problem identified in their professional practice that arose through viewing the SOTM.

Section 2: Self-Learning activities are planned to address specific needs, enhance awareness of new evidence potentially relevant to practice or enhance the quality of multiple systems. Section 2 activities do not require approval by an accredited CPD provider.

Planned Learning
Initiated by a physician (independently or in collaboration with peers or mentors) to address a need, problem, issue or goal relevant to their professional practice. Activities include:

• Fellowships
• Formal courses
• Personal learning projects (PLP)
• Traineeships

Scanning
Used by a physician to enhance their awareness of new evidence, perspectives or discoveries that are potentially relevant to their professional practice. Activities include:

• Journal reading
• Podcasts, audiotapes, videotapes
• Internet searching
• InfoPOEMs
  

Systems Learning
Stimulated by participation in activities such as setting practice standards, patient safety, continuous quality improvement; curriculum development; assessment tools and strategy development; examination board membership; or peer review. Activities include:

• Practice guideline development
• Quality care/patient safety committee
• Curriculum development
• Examination development
• Peer assessment

Performance Assessment

Simulation of real-life situations that allow participants to demonstrate (and receive feedback on) their application of knowledge (scientific and tacit), clinical reasoning, communication and problem-solving, as well as their ability to collaborate and work effectively in a health care team. Simulation activities use standardized patients, mannequins, part-task trainers or virtual cases to assess individual physicians or teams performing specific actions, tasks or behaviours related to a clinical scenario. Simulation programs must meet the following mandatory educational requirements in order for the activity to be approved under Section 3 of the MOC program:

• Be planned to address the identified needs of the target audience with a specific subject area, topic or problem.
• Provide participants with a strategy to assess their knowledge, skills, clinical judgment and/or attitudes in comparison to established evidence (scientific or tacit).
• Enable participants to demonstrate and assess their abilities/competencies across the key areas of the scenario(s), topic(s) or problem(s).
• Provide detailed feedback to participants on their performance to enable the identification of any area(s) requiring improvement through the development of a future learning plan. Feedback can be provided immediately or after the activity is over, either verbally and/or in writing.

Access Details

For further details on Section 3: Simulation Accreditation Standards, review the Guide here.

This module provides an overview of guideline-recommended and evidence-based approaches to open-angle glaucoma. Clinical scenarios guide the learner through risk factor identification, signs and symptoms, history taking, imaging, staging, treatment and follow up. Relevant guideline recommendations are provided, as well as clinical tips and red flags.

Target Audience

The “An Approach to Open-angle Glaucoma” module is intended for ophthalmologists specializing in glaucoma.

CPD Credits

This module is an accredited self-Assessment Activity under Section 3 of the MOC Program for 1 hour.

Access Details

Access the module online at cos.mycpd.ca

The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (RCPSC)’s Maintenance of Certification (MOC) Framework separates continuing professional development activities into three distinct sections:

Section 1 – Group Learning
Includes rounds, journal clubs, small groups and conferences. Activities can be face-to-face or web-based.

Section 2 – Self-Learning
Planned to address specific needs, enhance awareness of new evidence potentially relevant to practice or enhance the quality of multiple systems. Section 2 activities do not require approval by an accredited CPD provider.

Section 3 – Assessment
Includes activities that provide data with feedback to individual physicians regarding their current knowledge base to enable the identification of needs and the development of future learning opportunities relevant to their practice.

Section 3 – Simulation
Simulation of real-life situations that allow participants to demonstrate (and receive feedback on) their application of knowledge (scientific and tacit), clinical reasoning, communication and problem-solving, as well as their ability to collaborate and work effectively in a health care team.

The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada’s Maintenance of Certification (MOC) Program is an evidence-informed educational initiative designed to support, enhance and promote the continuing professional development (CPD) activities of MOC Program participants, including the Canadian Ophthalmological Society (COS). 

The COS MOC committee is a sub-committee of the CPD Council of the COS. The committee provides leadership in maintaining the RCPSC standards for accredited providers throughout the COS CPD program. The MOC committee approves high quality and ethically responsible accredited CPD opportunities, developed by physician organizations, for Canadian ophthalmologists and facilitates opportunities to work with other CPD partners to co-develop high quality and ethically responsible accredited CPD opportunities. MOC committee members: Dr. Colin Mann, Chair, Dr. Chloe Gottlieb, Dr. Glen Hoar, Dr. Phil Hooper, and Dr. Robert Schertzer.