Annual Self Report

The Annual Self Report (ASR) is the first component of the Quality Assurance Program. It is an interactive online tool that provides opportunity to support continuing competence by expanding a physical therapist’s knowledge and understanding of professional, legal, and ethical obligations.

The ASR uses a self-quiz structure, accessed via a personalized ID and password login.

This format:

  • Develops awareness of regulatory resources.
  • Develops understanding of ethical, legal, and professional requirements.
  • Encourages more interactivity, reflection and learning than long passages of "read-only" text.
  • Supports readiness for questions in the Registrant Competence Assessment.

Answers and explanations are provided for self-quiz questions, and links to resources that support practice are listed throughout. After completion of the ASR, physical therapists will receive personalized feedback reports on specific risks in their practice, and supports to further competence.

The Annual Self Report provides a structured method for reflection and self-monitoring. It allows registrants to consider their personal inventory of potential ‘risk factors’ to continuing competency, as well as their resources and supports used to maintain or enhance continuing competency and knowledge of professional, legal and ethical obligations.



Regulatory topics that will be covered in the self quiz:
  • Practice Standards
  • Professional boundaries
  • Communication
  • Clinical records / documentation
  • Consent to treatment
  • CPTBC Code of Ethics
  • BC Health Professions Act, College regulation of practice
  • Infection control
  • Privacy laws (e.g. Personal Information Protection Act, Freedom of Information & Protection of Privacy Act)
  • Appropriate referral to other health care workers re: needs of patient, personal competence

An example of a self-quiz question in the Annual Self Report:

Q.How long does a physical therapist have to keep an adult patient’s clinical records? Practice Standard No. 1 – Clinical Records

A. Choose one of the following:

  • Records must be kept indefinitely.
  • Records must be kept for 10 years after the date of last entry.
  • Records must be kept for 6 years after the date of last entry.
  • Records must be kept for 1 year after the date of last entry.

By including the link to Practice Standard No. 1 – Clinical Records you can quickly find additional information regarding the standards for record keeping. As noted above, the College cannot access your results, but aggregate data may help to inform us of the overall need for additional supports/resources. For example, if a large percentage of respondents scored poorly on this question, it may indicate a need for the College to develop additional resources/support for registrants with regards to clinical records.

The College will NOT have access to ASR information collected from individual registrants. The College will ONLY be notified that an unidentified registrant has completed the ASR. The anonymous data will be collected and used to identify topics for which the College may need to provide additional resources or supports for physical therapists in BC.

After completion of the ASR, some registrants may discover several ‘risk factors’ to their continuing competence. Remember, these are NOT indicators of incompetence, but are potential risks to competence as a physical therapist.

As an example from a clinical context, high blood pressure, being overweight, family/genetic risk, and being male are all risk factors to a person’s heart health2. These risk factors do not indicate that a specific individual has a heart condition, but they are things to consider. Some of these ‘risks’ are modifiable (e.g. weight), some are not (e.g. gender). An individual can then use this information to decrease the likelihood that they will develop a heart condition (e.g. lose weight).

In order to maintain and improve your competence as a physical therapist:

  1. Be aware of your risk factors,
  2. Decrease or manage your risks, where possible, and
  3. Increase your supports to competence.
Quick Facts about the Annual Self Report

Launched in fall 2010

Completed by all full, interim and limited registrants

Only aggregate (i.e. anonymous) data is available to the College
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    1See http://www.heartandstroke.com/site/c.ikIQLcMWJtE/b.3484475/ for the Heart and Stroke Blood Pressure Action Plan™

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LAST UPDATED: January 16, 2012