Member Resources
Specialty Committee
Section A: The Specialties Unit
Section B: The Specialty Committee
- Terms of reference
- Information, policies and procedures
- Basic Structure of a specialty committee
- Reimbursement of expenses
- Roles and responsibilities
- Chair
- Vice-chair/ chair-elect
- Voting member
- Non-voting observer representative
- Non-voting AFC or other representative
- Non-voting program director
Section D: Discipline recognition, implementation and maintenance
- Discipline recognition and review
- Committee on Specialties
- Criteria and categories of discipline recognition
- AFCs and Specialties Application Processes
- Applying for recognition of a specialty or subspecialty
- Policy and Procedure: Discipline Recognition Application
- Applications and national consultations: active
- Specialty Committee Roles and Responsibilities in Reviewing Applications for the Recognition of New Disciplines
- Discipline Review Policy
- Standard setting in medical education
- The role of the Specialty Standards Review Committee
- Specialty Standards Review Committee Terms of Reference
- What’s in a suite? The specialty standards how-to guide
- Competency based medical education
- Competence By Design (CBD) – the rationale for change
- CBD resources
- CBD document suite handbook and guidelines for review
- Specialty educational design
- Subscribe to the CBD Community Touchpoint
- Accreditation of residency programs
- Role of the committee in the accreditation process
- Accreditation of residency programs
- General standards applicable to all residency programs – ‘B’ standards
- General standards of accreditation - the descriptors
- New terminology for the categories of accreditation
- Volunteer to be a Royal College program surveyor
- Accreditation of Residency program - CanERA
- CanERA training module
- Credentialing and assessment
- Examinations and evaluation
- Areas of Focused Competence (AFC-diplomas)
- CanMEDS
- Other resources
- Information by Discipline – an online listing of approved document suites by discipline
- The Specialty Committee Chairs’ Update
- Key activities and dates for chairs and committees to facilitate planning
Section E: The Royal College
Specialties Unit
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