1999/2000 Goals and Objectives

1. Achieve Society registration and legal status.

Conclude Society bylaws, registration of the name Clinical Engineering Society of Ontario, official standing under the Professional Engineering Society, and other preliminary requirements before incorporation in order to become registered in the Province as a Society.
Conduct first Annual General Meeting to ratify all bylaws and begin operation.

2. Begin the work required to move the Society and the Profession toward college status.

Develop a working relationship with the MOH and review the history of the umbrella legislation of the Regulated Health Professions Act, 1991 to determine current professional exclusion.
Review the Professional Engineers Act of Ontario (1984) and the Ontario Association of Technologists and Technicians Act (1984) to determine the best model for achieving college status under these two organizations.

3. Establish and solidify the relationship with other provincial Clinical Engineering Societies as well as the national Canadian Biological and Engineering Society.

Roles and responsibilities
Continued feasibility
Joint publications
Continuing education

4. Begin to develop the framework for the delivery and credentialing of continuing education courses for the Professions.

Delivery
standards