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Royal College Specialty Committee Report to CSCRS

Dear Colleagues:

It is with pleasure that I report on the latest developments at the level of the Specialty Committee in Colorectal Surgery. We have achieved a major milestone by becoming a specialty certified by a Royal College certification examination. A Board of Examiners, chaired by Dr. Terry Phang, was brought to Ottawa to develop a specialty specific examination which was administered on September 23rd, 2009. The Specialty Committee has completed the major task of updating the Specialty Specific Training Objectives and the Training Requirements for our three programs. All our programs were approved for accredited training in colorectal surgery in Canada.

As President of the Specialty Committee, I attended a workshop for new Chairs in Ottawa last fall and will be attending a similar meeting next November. This is a good opportunity to promote exchanges between specialties and participate in the evolution of the College. We have worked hard on the FITER and have succeeded in transforming the objectives into competency-based specialty specific performance indicators. Recently, I was invited to present our documents to the General Surgery Specialty Committee meeting during the recent Canadian Surgery Forum in Victoria. We will continue to monitor the standards of training in Canada and will participate in the development of exams, to be offered to graduating fellows and established specialists wishing to obtain certification in Canada. The Royal College website has the pathways to obtain accreditation for those in practice.


Paul Belliveau MDCM MPA
President Royal College Specialty Committee Colorectal Surgery Kingston General and Hotel Dieu Hospitals Queen's University Kingston, Ontario

Winner of the 2010 CSCRS / SCCCR - Research Program in partnership with Collotamp
Operating Grant Competition!

The CSCRS is proud to announce Dr. Eisar Al-Sukhni as the recipient of this Award for her paper entitled : “A provincial audit to assess the quality of MRI for the staging of rectal cancer in Ontario”. For a full update on Dr. Al-Sukhni’s project, please click here.

Congratulations to Dr. Devon Richardson for winning the best paper podium prize for 2010 entitled: "Self Reported Patterns of Rectal Cancer Care Among General Surgeons in Canada".