Legislation and standards

Legislation

The Yukon Medical Council regulates the practice of medicine in the Yukon in accordance with the Medical Profession Act and its subordinate regulations.

• Medical Profession Act
• Medical Profession Regulation
• Medical Profession Registration and Fees Regulation
• Medical Profession Disciplinary Matters Disclosure Regulation
• Yukon Medical Council Remuneration Regulation

• Penalty to be Paid (for Purposes of subsection (18(6)) Regulation

Code of Ethics

Yukon physicians must adhere to the Canadian Medical Association’s Code of Ethics.

Standards of practice

The standards of practice reflect the minimum standard of professional behaviour and ethical conduct on specific topics or issues expected by the Yukon Medical Council of all physicians and surgeons in the Yukon.

Administration of practice

• Advertising

• Charging for uninsured professional services

• Conflict of interest

• Direction and control of a medical practice

• Prescriptions  (Updated July 2021)

• Records content 

• Records management (Updated April 2022)

• Re-entering medical practice or changing scope of practice

Collaboration

• Collaboration in patient care

• Duty to report a colleague

• Non-treating medical examinations

• Responding to third party requests

• Self-reporting to the Council

• Telemedicine  (Updated April 2022)

• The referral consultation process

Medical practice

• Assessing the mental capacity of a patient

• Cannabis for medical purposes (Updated July 2020)

  • Patient medical document (Updated July 2020)

• Complementary and alternative medicine

• Medical assistance in dying (Updated March 17, 2023)

  • Additional information and forms are available on Yukon.ca

  • Health Canada guidance document on the Reporting Requirements under the Regulations Amending the Regulations for the Monitoring of Medical Assistance in Dying.

• Moral or religious beliefs affecting medical care

• Opioid agonist treatment  (Updated May 2022)

  • OAT application form  (Updated May 2022)

• Safe prescribing of drugs with potential for misuse/diversion (Revisions in progress.  Please contact YMC for specific inquiries.)
  
   For guidance on safe prescribing please refer to the BC standard on Safe Prescribing of Opioids and Sedatives posted with permission from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia. 

• Prescribing Buprenorphine / Naloxone (Suboxone®) (Updated May 2022)

• Methadone for Pain Management (Updated May 2022)

Physician-patient relationship

• Closing or leaving a medical practice

• Continuity of access to care

• Disclosure of harm

• Episodic care

• Establishing the physician-patient relationship

• Informed consent

• Relocating a medical practice

• Sexual boundary violations

• Terminating the physician-patient relationship

Other YMC policies and guidelines

• FAQ – Prescribing buprenorphine in Yukon

• Mifegymiso guideline

• Physicians with blood borne pathogens

• Physicians in post-graduate training prescription writing

Limited family practice policies and guidelines

• Limited family practice supervision policy
• Expectations of medical regulatory authorities using supervision for provisional licensure