How COMPO Protects the Public Interest

How COMPO Protects the Public Interest

The College of Osteopathic Manual Practitioners of Ontario (COMPO) sets requirements for entry to the profession, registers osteopathic manual practitioners, sets standards of practice and guidelines for professional practice, monitors competence of its members through a quality assurance program, investigates complaints and reports against osteopathic manual practitioners who are its members and disciplines those members who have committed acts of professional misconduct or who are incompetent or incapacitated.

Before being allowed to become a member of the College of Osteopathic Manual Practitioners of Ontario, an osteopathic manual practitioner must:

• graduate from an accredited osteopathic manual practice college which offers manual osteopathic education that is compliant with the Benchmarks in Training in Osteopathy published by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2010; which requires that the osteopathic education be a minimum of 4200 hours (approximately 4 years) for students with no prior health education or 2000 hours for students with prior health education, 1000 hours of which must be on clinical training.
• pass licensing examinations as set by the College of Osteopathic Manual Practitioners of Ontario
• obtain malpractice insurance

Applicants must also meet the requirements of Employment and Immigration Canada and demonstrate a reasonable fluency in either English or French.