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New On-Line Courses now available! Click here for details.
Do you know what your facility's Pandameic Plan is? If not, we urge you to learn about it and how it will affect you in terms f going to work especially in situations where your family may have the disease and whether there are all the safety tools, aids ( like properly fitting masks) etc there to protect you.
For those who want to go into management, obtain or upgrade your management skills and qualifications, our McMaster/DeGroote School of Business Programs are for you. Contact Greg Toffner at 1-800- 387 - 4674 Ext 115
Are you aware of your rights to be free from workplace violence? This is an Occupational Health & Safety Issue and all MRTs need to be aware of their rights and responsibilities. Violence includes verbal abuse and harassment whether from superiors, peers or patients. Did you know that there is a 'Guidebook for managing disruptive physician behaviour'? It can be viewed on the College of Physician & Surgeon's of Ontario (CPSO ) website at www.cpso.on.ca, under 'What's New'.
Join the Association's MEDOC Travel Plan. It has: $ 5 Million emergency medical coverage, Trip Cancellation / Interruption protection, 24 hour multilingual assistance hot line, Flight & Travel Accident coverage, up-front claims payment; better than the banks, credit cards and other, Visit the Benefit section of the Member's Only Section of this web site.
Your FREE $3,000 Accidental Death & Dismemberment Policy from AIL provides a family eye care program. The eye care program is through HAKIM Optical and provides a 30% discount. See the details in the benefit section of the Member's Only Section of this web site.
OAMRT Annual General Meeting and Conference, April 30 - May 2, 2010, Crowne Plaza Hotel, Ottawa
OAMRT continues to work with Ministry of Health & Long-Term Care politicians and staff in regard to protecting patients from unnecessary radiations, in partnership with the HARP Commission, to modernize the HARP Act. We have concerns that some professions, based on the evidence we have, that seek to order and assess DI examinations do not have the training and education necessary to do that in a competent manner. In reality, MRTs have the competencies and far more experience in assessing anatomy and pathology on an image and are the experts in radiation protection and biology. We are advocating that those professions seeking a change to their scope of practice achieve the requisite competencies to protect the public/patients and that administrators and managers have in place the appropriate policies, procedures and guidelines to ensure that nurses and others who have been given the right to order and assess images actually are competent to do so.
Bill 179 has proposed that all MRTs have Professional Liability Insurance (PLI) and the likely hood of this being passed is high. The OAMRT/CAMRT Membership provides this ( includes malpractice, CMRTO disciplinary hearings, criminal code defence coverage and costs for coroner's inquests). Non-OAMRT/CAMRT Members do not likely have PLI especially in the IHF (clinic) sector so joining us to day will ensure you meet the incoming legal requirements for PLI.
The Association is lobbying government to include in the proposed new Scope of Practice Statement for the Profession under Bill 179 that the requested portion be reinserted dealing with 'assessing the patient before, during and after the Procedure'
See the new on-line continuing professional development (CPD ) courses we have developed for MRTs ( Non-Members pay more). We are also in the process of developing more. Want a course in contrast media injection at a site near you or take a certificate course in BMD? Explore what we have.
What is the OAMRT doing the next 3 years? Explore this web site and view our strategy map.
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Ontario Association of Medical Radiation Technologists ©2009
P.O. Box 1054, Brantford, Ontario, Canada, N3T 5S7
233 Colborne Street, Suite 101, N3T 2H5
Phone: (519) 753-6037, FAX: (519) 753-6408, Toll Free: 1-800-387-4674
