Quality Assurance
Overview
The Quality Assurance (QA) program helps occupational therapists reflect on their professional roles and responsibilities. The program allows registrants to identify new areas of learning and then participate in learning activities that reflect evolving practice and the expectations for safe, effective and ethical services.
The Council has identified the following domains of professional growth for its members:
- Occupational Therapy Expertise
- Communication and Collaboration
- Culture, Equity, and Justice
- Excellence in Practice
- Professional Responsibility
- Engagement with the Profession
For each of these domains, the Council determined possible areas of professional growth. These areas are listed and described in detail in the Self-Assessment Tool document posted below.
Steps to complete the Quality Assurance requirement
The QA program is mandatory for all registrants, and it is scheduled around the registration year — April 1 to March 31.
As a registered College member, each registration year you must identify two learning goals and complete learning activities to achieve those goals. Make sure to read the Instruction Guide and look at the examples before you complete this requirement for the first time.
- Use the Self-Assessment Tool to assess the areas of potential growth for each identified domain; you do not need to provide this document to the College.
- Use the Professional Learning Goals form to identify your two learning goals; upload two separate documents — one for each goal — to your HMS profile before the renewal information is due (March 15). These will be your learning goals for the next registration cycle.
- Use the Completed Learning Activities form to record the learning activities you completed to achieve the identified goals; upload the two documents — one for each goal — to your HMS profile.
- Repeat the steps above each year close to or during the renewal period.
