{"id":7729,"date":"2019-02-06T10:55:56","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T15:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmo.on.ca\/?p=7729"},"modified":"2019-02-06T10:55:56","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T15:55:56","slug":"diagnostic-medical-sonographers-now-regulated-health-professionals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cmo.on.ca\/diagnostic-medical-sonographers-now-regulated-health-professionals\/","title":{"rendered":"Diagnostic Medical Sonographers now Regulated Health Professionals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Note: This article was originally published in our <a href=\"https:\/\/cmo.on.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/2019-WINTER-ON-CALL.pdf\">Winter 2019 edition of our On Call newsletter<\/a>, and has not been updated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">It is now mandatory for diagnostic medical sonographers to be regulated health professionals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Members of the <span class=\"s1\">College of Midwives of Ontario<\/span>, the <span class=\"s1\">College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario,<\/span> and the <span class=\"s1\">College of Nurses of Ontario<\/span> are authorized to apply soundwaves for the purpose of diagnostic ultrasound under the Controlled Acts Regulation, made under the <i>Regulated Health Professions Act, 1991. <\/i>Diagnostic medical sonographers who are not members of one of the Colleges listed above must be registered with the<span class=\"s1\"> College of Medical Radiation Technologists of Ontario<\/span> as of January 1, 2019.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Effective January 1, 2019 clients should only be referred to registered diagnostic medical sonographers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is now mandatory for diagnostic medical sonographers to be regulated health professionals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[97,92,59,24,261,260],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmo.on.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7729"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmo.on.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmo.on.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmo.on.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmo.on.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cmo.on.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7730,"href":"https:\/\/cmo.on.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7729\/revisions\/7730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmo.on.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmo.on.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmo.on.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}