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2023
Recommendation 9:
MCFD should also begin a full learning and development initiative, for all service lines, to train staff on the use of child-centred, person-first and identity-first, destigmatizing language when speaking to, and documenting the lives of, children and youth in the child-serving system.
To be implemented by Sept. 1, 2024.
To be implemented by Sept. 1, 2024.
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Recommendation 6:
Increasing the number of residency positions to accommodate more candidates.
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Recommendation 7:
Implementing Practice Ready Assessments (PRA) of all graduates of international medical schools, including specialists, who meet simple eligibility criteria to determine if retraining is necessary and, if so, to what degree.
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Recommendation 10:
Implementing and/or increasing existing oversight and accountability including enforcement powers (such as Fairness Commissioners) of all aspects of the entry to the medical profession to ensure admission to the profession is: (i) fair and free of discrimination, i.e., inclusive and consistent with the principles of a free and democratic society; (ii) impartial; (iii) objective; (iv) flexible and (v) transparent as defined in the Health Professions Review Board’s Best Practices (BC HPRB, n.d.).
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Recommendation 6:
Immediately remove the requirement for youth to be ‘habitually’ missing before workers are directed to work with the child or youth to determine why they go missing.
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Recommendation 4:
Immediately remove the requirement for missing children in the system of care to require additional safety concerns before a child is reported lost or missing and approach as high risk until a risk assessment is completed to ensure an equitable and robust response to the disappearance of all children and youth in B.C. to align MCFD policy with the B.C. Provincial Policing Standards concerning missing children.
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Recommendation 8:
Immediately develop resources and guidelines for staff on the use of child-centred, person-first and identity-first, destigmatizing language when speaking to and documenting the lives of children and youth in the child-serving system.
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Recommendation 8:
Ending the requirement that graduates of international medical schools sign a return of service contract as a condition of working as resident physicians where they ‘agree’ to work in the community and clinic where the government directs them for a specified number of years after they are fully licensed.
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Recommendation 3:
Eliminate the English proficiency exam when medical training was undertaken primarily in the English language.
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Recommendation 2:
Develop and implement an interim plan to improve the collection of reliable information and data to enable the PDCW to more effectively identify, monitor and respond to children and youth who are lost or missing in B.C.’s child welfare system.
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