In the News

• Taking a Brrr-eak? OMA Says Keep Your Butts Outside!
  As the temperature drops, Ontario’s doctors ask smokers to refrain from smoking indoors to avoid exposing children and other family and friends to harmful second-hand smoke.
  
  
• Ontario’s Doctors Discouraged by Provincial Health Care Spending
  Ontario Medical Association raises concerns over expansion of nurse practitioner clinics .
  
  
• Doctors Welcome Bill to Make Roads Safer
  OMA’s road safety prescription heeded in bill to ban use of hand held devices for drivers.
  
  
• Doctors Vote in Support of New Agreement with Province
  The elected governing Council of the OMA has voted to ratify a new contract with the provincial government.
  
  
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Patient Advocacy

• Campaign for Healthier Care
  
  
• Smoking in Cars with Kids
  
  

Physician Resources

Physician Workforce Policy and Planning

• OMA Position Paper: OMA Position on Physician Workforce Policy and Planning Revisited
  
  
• Backgrounder: Ontario Physician Shortage 2007
  
  
• OMA Recommendations
  
  

OMA Policy Statements

• Comprehensive Primary Care Policy Paper
  
  
• Interprofessional Care
  
  
• Maternal and Newborn Care
  
  
• Maternal/Neonate transfer from Home to Hospital Guidelines
  
  
• Nurse Sigmoidoscopist
  
  
• Physician Assistants working with Orthopedic Surgery
  
  
• Professional Relations between Obstetricians & Midwives
  
  
• Surgical First Assistants
  
  
• Working Relationship between Physicians - Registered Nurses (Extended Class)