How do Regulatory Colleges regulate their profession to protect the public?
Registration with the college is mandatory for a member to obtain a licence to practice.
Set the requirements for becoming a member of the profession.
Make sure that only qualified and licensed professionals use their title.
Keep up-to-date a publicly available registry of its members.
Determine their scope of practise (boundaries for conduct and procedures).
Provide guidelines for their professional practice.
Monitor members participation in their ongoing professional development.
Make available a procedure for the public to address their complaints of a professional who may have acted in a unprofessional, incompetent or unethical way.
Manage a disciplinary process for their professional practitioners who do not meet the established standards of professional practice.