Dear Osteopathic Manual Practitioners:
I am excited to announce that the presidents of a number of Ontario
based osteopathic associations will get together soon to form the
Coalition for the Promotion of Osteopathy in Ontario.
This is necessary if we wish to get osteopathy regulated in Ontario.
The government has three rules for regulating a profession. Number one rule is that the profession must be united.
In Quebec they understood this and the Coalition for the Promotion of
Osteopathy in Quebec has been founded a while back and now includes all
the major Quebec associations. That coalition is the voice of profession
in Quebec now.
We can do the same in Ontario. When all
associations of osteopathy get together and form a coalition and that
coalition become the voice of the profession we will have a united voice
and that is what the government of Ontario requires.
We have
the other two requirements. Number 2 being the profession must have a
defined scope of practice which we do. And #3 being there must be enough
practitioners which we have over 1000 in Ontario.
I am quite
excited about this and I support the regulation in anyways I can. I ask
all of you my colleagues to contact your associations and ask them to
join the coalition.
Manual osteopath, Dr Andrew Chan, DOMP, DO
(Spain), president of National Osteopathic Practitioners Association
will contact presidents of the other Ontario based associations soon to
invite them to join the coalition.
Let us unite to get osteopathy regulated in Ontario.
Thank you.
Dr Shawnn Pourgol, MBA, DC, DO, PhD
President
Canadian Union of Osteopathic Manual Practitioners
National University of Medical Sciences (Spain)
National University of Medical Sciences (USA)
