Focus areas include decision-making, consent, privacy, confidentiality, research and physician responsibilities.
This document, which was in force at least until March 2015 was composed of four double-column pages and had 54 enumerated points in the section heads identified in 1996.
[4] In November 2017, the new Code document (with a slightly amended title) was in draft form and was noticed by both the Toronto Star and the Simcoe Times in the former's article on cyber-bullying problems at the Ontario Medical Association.
The political position taken by the government of Justin Trudeau to legalize physician assisted suicide in Canada was in question.
In the view of some doctors, the withdrawal of the CMA from the World Medical Association (WMA) was due to a conflict over each body's vision of society.