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OPRC adheres to strict data sharing agreements with a number of organizations to ensure the privacy and security of the information we collect. We routinely update these agreements to meet individual requirements. Among these are agreements with: the Ontario Ministry of Health; the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO); Scott’s Medical Database (SMDB); OneKey Database (obtained under license from IQVIA Solutions Canada Inc. All Rights Reserved); and the Council of Ontario Faculties of Medicine (COFM).
Annual Physicians in Ontario (PIO) and Postgraduate Medical Trainees in Ontario (PMTIO) reports are publicly available on our website. OPRC does not disclose information on individual physicians or medical trainees, custom aggregate reports may be requested by interested parties when appropriate.
This longitudinal database includes all licensed physicians providing patient care in Ontario for the equivalent of at least 50 days/year for each PIO report year. The Physicians in Ontario (PIO) Annual Report is derived from the database and has been produced since 1992. Additionally, these data are used by OPRC to produce other reports and analyses of the Ontario physician workforce.
Compiled by OPRC with the collaboration of Ontario’s hospitals, the Physician Hospital Appointments Listing (PHAL) database is one of the sources used to validate practice location of physicians in the Physicians in Ontario (PIO) database. PHAL data has been collected by OPRC since 2003 when OPRC was approached by the Ministry of Health to assume this project on their behalf. OPRC collects information on Physician Hospital Appointments and appends this information to the PIO annual dataset provided to the Ministry.
This database contains the results of brief telephone surveys with Ontario physicians’ offices to confirm their activity status, specialty focus, and location of practice. Generally, interviews are completed every 3 to 5 years. Surveys are completed on a yearly basis in the case of discrepant data, potential retirees, newly practicing physicians, and physicians returning from leave. These data are an essential data source for the Physicians in Ontario (PIO) database. Collection of these data has been a function of OPRC since its inception.
This database compliments the Physicians in Ontario (PIO) database and has been produced since 1993. Registration data for postgraduate medical trainees at each of the Ontario medical schools is compiled into a provincial resource. The database is used to prepare the Postgraduate Medical Trainees in Ontario (PMTIO) Annual Report. OPRC also acts on behalf of Ontario’s medical schools to provide initial registration data to College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO), contact information to the Professional Association of Residents of Ontario (PARO), and Ontario trainee data to the Canadian Post-M.D. Education Registry (CAPER).
Medical Trainee Days (MTD) data has been collected by OPRC since 2014 when responsibility for collecting these data was moved from the Ministry of Health operations to the medical schools. On their behalf, OPRC concatenates and validates data on the clinical rotations of undergraduate medical students and postgraduate medical trainees. This data is provided by Ontario hospitals through the Ontario medical schools and is used by the Ministry of Health in the formula for the calculation of funding for Ontario hospitals.