Correspondence, Supporting Documents
The Relativity Advisory Committee (RAC) held a virtual education session with council delegates, alternates and section tariff chairs on Monday, October 19, 2020. Learn more about the session.
The Relativity Advisory Committee (RAC) is seeking assistance from qualified candidates to conduct a study to
determine what the return on education for physicians in Ontario should be. A Request For Proposal has been posted
on www.merx.com. View the RFP.
View the final report on the intrasectional relativity survey (PDF)
The Relativity Advisory Committee (RAC) held its Education and Feedback Session on Relativity Models on May 3, 2019 at the OMA 2019 Spring Council in Ottawa. Video recordings of the different components of the session as
well as a transcript of the questions along with related answers can be accessed by clicking on the following link
below.
The Relativity Advisory Committee will be providing their early progress on relativity models on Friday morning, May 3, from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. The session will include a presentation on the specific building blocks of different relativity models, followed by a panel discussion with RAC members. Contact relativity@oma.org for more details.
Pre-meeting materials are provided below:
Third Party Vendor Chosen
At the at the OMA Special Council on Relativity meeting held on October 21, 2018, OMA Council carried the following
motion, “That Council approves the process to allow Sections to submit new evidence by November 30th instead of
November 5th in support of updating their hours of work data including their after-hours work activity data, as
described in the EPR communication to Sections on August 2nd and August 27th and the accompanying Frequently Asked
Questions document.”
As such the RFP was amended to include the analysis of data relating to Hours of Work performed during daytime
Monday to Friday excluding statutory holidays in addition to the after-hours work outlined previously. It also
extends the data collection period from November 5, 2018 to November 30, 2018 allowing interested Sections more time
to submit external data. To view the Addendum please click here.
Subsequently, a third part vendor was chosen to carry out the work requested in the RFP, to view their full
submission please click here.
In September 2018, a Request for Proposal (RFP) was posted to the website www.merx.com in order to obtain proposals from interested vendors who will be
responsible for evaluating the appropriateness of any and all data that comes about from Sections wishing to submit
any additional evidence and supporting arguments to update their work hours and/or out-of-hours activity. To view
the RFP in its entirety, please click here.
In August 2018, an invitation was sent to all OMA Section Chairs and Executives inviting them to submit any
additional evidence and supporting arguments to update their work hours and/or out-of-hours activity. More
information about this process can be found in the links below.
In June 2018, a communication was sent to the OMA Membership explaining recent developments related to relativity. This
included a release on the Ministry of Health and Long Term Care’s Relativity Proposal known as RAANI, OMA Board-Approved
Revisions to the current CANDI model, the final report from the Relativity Review Committee and the announcement of the
new Relativity Advisory Committee.
The following outlines the recent history of the OMA’s efforts on this issue, in a descending chronological order.
The Relativity Advisory Committee (2018 - )
The Relativity Advisory Committee
was struck in May 2018. It is a CEO advisory committee comprising of 8 members (2 from each assembly) that reports
to the CEO with a “dotted line reporting responsibility” to the OMA Board. The Committee is responsible for
providing advice and ongoing input to OMA Board, OMA Council and the Negotiating Committee as appropriate with
regards to relativity related issues.
The Relativity Review Committee (2017 - 2018)
This committee was struck in
June 2017 with a mandate from the OMA Board of Directors to improve inter-sectional and intra-section relativity for
medical practice in Ontario. This included investigating relativity models in other jurisdictions, reviewing the
OMA CANDI model and issuing a general survey to the active OMA membership to get more information on practice
characteristics such as After-Hours activity, Overhead and Hours of Work.
The Post-2015 Review (2015 - 2017)
At the end of abeyance period, the Council tasked the
Economics, Research and Analytics (ERA) department to conduct a technical review of the CANDI methodology. At its
Fall 2015 meeting, the Council further tasked the ERA to conduct a survey of Section leadership on their views of
relativity in general and to solicit written input from all Sections on the current CANDI methodology.
The Abeyance Period (2012 - 2015)
At its Spring 2012 meeting, the Council passed the motion
“that a review of the CANDI Relativity Methodology be initiated in three years.”
The CANDI Relativity Implementation Committee (2009-2012)
The mandate of this committee was to
implement the recommendations from the RVIC Working Group, which included the initiation and oversight of research
studies on income, overhead, and hours of work.
The RVIC Methodology Review Working Group (2008-2009)
The mandate of this
working group was to review the RVIC methodology. This working group developed a new methodology known as the
Comparison of Average Net Daily Income (CANDI) that was approved by Council at the fall 2009 meeting, and is
currently used for relativity purposes
Contacts
For additional information, please contact:
George Marusic, Director, Analytics
Toll Free: 1.800.268.7215 Ext. 2899
Direct Line: 416.340.2899
E-mail: relativity@oma.org
