CAEP 2015 Academic Symposium: Leadership within the emergency medicine academic community and beyond.

Objectives: A panel of emergency medicine (EM) leaders endeavoured to define the key elements of leadership and its models, as well as to formulate consensus recommendations to build and strengthen academic leadership in the Canadian EM community in the areas of mentorship, education, and resources.

Methods: The expert panel comprised EM leaders from across Canada and met regularly by teleconference over the course of 9 months. From the breadth of backgrounds and experience, as well as a literature review and the development of a leadership video series, broad themes for recommendations around the building and strengthening of EM leadership were presented at the CAEP 2015 Academic Symposium held in Edmonton, Alberta.

Internationally educated healthcare workers: focus on physicians in ontario.

The issue of access to licensure for internationally educated health professionals is a critical one, and the impact of inadequate healthcare resources has a profound impact on patients. As the body that licenses doctors in Ontario, issues related to the provincial doctor shortage and problems with access to licensure for international medical graduates (IMGs) have been significant areas of focus for the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO). In February 2002, the CPSO Council approved the establishment of the first Physician Resources Task Force.