QUALITY ASSURANCE

• To ensure RMTs are keeping up with changing standards and offering patients quality care at all times, the Quality Management Committee (QMC) of the CMT is always evaluating courses and activities and approving those that contribute to the professional standards for massage therapy.
• Registrants must upgrade by taking courses, attending lectures, forming study groups or other activities that the QMC has approved. Activities are generally expected to be directly related to the practice of massage therapy and within the scope of practice accepted by the Health Professions Act. 

Background of Quality Assurance

In 2007, the CMTBC informed Registrants of a new BC Government Ministry of Health requirement that calls for all health care professions to develop "supplemental means to monitor a high level of continued competence on the part of our Registrants." This Government mandate requires "all Professional Colleges legislated under the Health Professions Act (26.1) to demonstrate and monitor a high level of continued competence to assure quality care and safety for the public." Continued Competence and Quality Assurance is now a BC Government Ministry of Health requirement. The CMTBC formed the Quality Assurance Panel (QAP) to help transition members under this new requirement. The QAP sought feedback from the membership on this process and issued a questionnaire to CMT Registrants.

Informed by the survey results and guided by the QAP's four criteria stating that the process should be easy, effective, efficient and cost effective, the QAP chose to implement Online Non-Punitive Exams as the most feasible option to meet the new Quality Assurance Measures.

QAP Survey Results