Competence Review and Competence Improvement

Competence Review and Competence Improvement

 Competence Review

The competence review assesses therapists' skills, knowledge, and judgement required to provide safe, effective, and ethical services and to identify those registrants who may require improvement to practice.  It will involve a two-step review process:

• Competence Assessment:  This will be a written assessment that will assess therapists' knowledge, skills, and judgments in the areas of regulatory requirements, compliance with provincial legislation, and essential competencies for practice.  The purpose of the evaluation is to screen therapists for those that will require further assessment of their competence.  All therapists with the College will be required to complete the evaluation every 5 years.  The Assessment Blueprint is available here, as well as the Validation Survey Report.
• Peer Assessment:  This will be a more in-depth onsite assessment of therapists' clinical competencies.  This process will be used for those therapists that did not meet the standard set by the College on the Competence Assessment or who are selected by the College.  

Competence Improvement

The peer assessment report will be reviewed by the Continuing Competency Committee.  The College will assist the therapist with developing an individualized improvement plan approved by the Committee.  The therapist will submit evidence that they have completed the individualized improvement plan to the College.

*These components are currently under development*  Further information is available in the Program Framework document.