43rd Annual Educational Conference Presentations

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Program  |  Program Tracks  |  Speaker Bios
Thursday, September 28

Professionals don't need regulating (Opening Keynote Presentation)

Relevant Regulation: Insights From the Lived Experience (RAG)
Investigators' Roundtable (CDE)
Adapting Testing Policies to Keep Up With Test Administration Irregularities (T&E)
What are you looking for? Changing Culture and Refocusing Regulatory Relationships with Education and Training Providers (EtP)

How can you assess regulatory performance in equality, diversity and inclusion? (RAG)
Walking the regulatory tightrope: Protecting the public and being fair to all parties in sexual misconduct complaints (CDE)
Learning and Testing at the Same Time?! (T&E)
Beyond Data Forensics: How to Deal with Flagged Candidates (EtP)

How to stand up a Professional Regulatory Engagement Effort (RAG)
Domestic and Family Violence: The public interest in regulating what was once “private violence” (CDE) (Resource: Resource Sheet)
ABCDE&I: Assessment Based Considerations for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Across the Exam Development Life Cycle (T&E)
Competence and Standards: Are they enough? (EtP)

Friday, September 29

Addressing Procedural Drift in Regulatory Practices (RAG)
The Effectiveness of Remedial Interventions: Examining the Evidence (CDE)
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Exams - Real world examples of what we have done! (T&E)
CLEAR Alternative Pathways to Licensure Research Project (APL): Overview & Opportunity to Provide Guidance and Feedback (EtP)

Own your Shift: Turn your season of change into your season of possibilities (Friday Plenary Presentation)

Diversity and Inclusion: Opportunities, Successes, and Legal Guardrails (RAG) (Resource: Guidance on Implementing SCOTUS Affirmative Action Ruling)
Times they are a Changing: The data to support a potential change to how you investigate and discipline (CDE)
Tracking the "New Normal" – Factors Related to Variations in Pass Rates and Implications for the Future (T&E)
Strategies to create efficiencies when evaluating and recognising the qualifications of foreign educated professionals (EtP)

Perspectives from British Columbia: Modern Regulatory Approaches to Indigenous Reconciliation and Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (RAG)
Transforming Complaint Processes to better serve Indigenous Peoples of British Columbia, Australia and New Zealand (CDE)
The Expanding Test Taker “Dataverse” – Implications for High Stakes Testing (T&E)
Enabling Workforce Mobility and Licensing of Foreign-Credentialed Applicants (EtP)

Poster Session
Vox Publica: Maximizing Public Member Value and Meaningful Engagement in Professional Regulation (RAG)
Physician Discipline: Continuing Medical Education and Reducing Recidivism (CDE)
Pairwise Scaling: Did it solve the ultimate exam construction riddle of timeliness with integrity? (T&E)
NP Peer Review: A Regulatory Assessment for Assuring Patient Safety and Quality of Care (EtP)
State Licensing Boards and State Higher Education Agencies Must Collaborate to Minimize Barriers for Postsecondary Students as Future Practitioners (EtP) (Resources: Federal Rulemaking Process, State Authorization and Crossing State Borders, Part 2: Additional Approvals and Professional Licensure)
The New-Licensee Mentoring Program: An ever-evolving signature pedagogy for Immigration Practice in Canada (EtP)

National Cross-Profession Minimum Data Set Initiative: Empowering Regulators to Serve as Champions for Informed Policy (RAG) (Resources: Cross-profession Minimum Dataset Survey (CPMDS) Tool
Frustrated and Angry Registrants: One Regulator’s Approach to Managing Difficult Interactions (CDE)
Ask the Experts: Answers to questions every regulator wants to know about assessment (T&E)
Who is at risk in their practice? It Depends! (EtP)

The Data You Need and That Others Want – Strategies for Collecting, Using, and Sharing Important Workforce Data (RAG)
The Remote Proctoring Room Scan Decision: How Test Providers Can Protect Against Legal Challenges (CDE)
CLEAR Book Club (Pre-Conference Reading Optional) – Weapons of Math Destruction (T&E)
International Mobility: reducing barriers and improving ethics (EtP)

Saturday, September 30

“We Can’t Do Evidence-Based Policy Without Evidence”: The Intersection of Research and Health  Profession Regulation (RAG)
The Role of Compacts in Facilitating Telehealth (CDE)
ReEntry of Physical Therapy Providers:  The Art and Science (EtP)

Uncertainty Managed – an Economic and Moral Logic approach to implementing Kindness into Regulation (RAG)
Transformative Trends in High Stakes Testing (T&E)
Changes in Continuing Education and Enforcement of the Requirements (EtP)

Setting Precedents: The Top Ten Recent Cases You Need to Know About (Closing Plenary Presentation)