Participating in the CMA Member Voice e-Panel gives you the chance to share your views on a variety of health policy and professional issues. The feedback collected through these online surveys provides a quick snapshot of where the profession stands — and helps inform our policy and advocacy.
Here’s how it works:
Four to six times a year, we’ll send you an email asking you to participate in an online survey. Each survey takes fewer than 15 minutes to complete. Your input is anonymized and used in aggregate. You can opt out of the e-Panel at any time.
Recent survey results
Feedback from our members has a real impact on our work. Here’s some of what we’ve heard in our recent e-Panel surveys — and what we plan to do with the findings.
National licensure
Within the current licensing system, physicians' ability to practice in other provinces, fill locum positions, and provide virtual care to patients is limited. This e-Panel survey asked physicians about these challenges and their views on a national medical licensure to practice across Canada.
Read the summaryPharmacare
With pharmacare back on the national agenda, we surveyed e-Panel members to learn more about their experiences prescribing medication to patients and to gather perspectives on what a Canadian pharmacare program should look like.
Read the summarySupporting communities of interest
Physicians are coming together to address system, patient or professional issues through informal and formal communities of interest. This e-Panel survey sought to better understand what physicians are working on in these groups, the successes they’ve had and the barriers they face.
Read the summaryThird-party forms
The number of forms physicians are asked to fill for patients can add up to a significant administrative burden. This e-Panel survey asked physicians about the common third-party forms they encounter and their concerns, including the length of time it takes to complete them.
Read the summaryChoosing Wisely Canada
The Choosing Wisely Canada (CWC) campaign helps clinicians and patients engage in conversations about unnecessary tests, treatments and procedures. This e-Panel survey provided a snapshot of physicians’ awareness of the campaign and how they use CWC resources.
Read the summaryMarijuana
As the federal government prepared legislation to legalize marijuana, we asked physicians for their thoughts on distribution, consumption and regulation — and the supports required by frontline practitioners.
Read the summaryOther survey results
Professionalism (September 2015)
Post-approval surveillance of drugs and medical devices (March 2015)
Seniors care (February 2015)
Opioids (May 2014)
Your privacy
When you sign into an e-panel survey, demographic data - collected through your member profile - may be inserted into our survey response database. Previously, e-panel members submitted this information manually. All survey information provided is anonymized and used in aggregate. By joining the e-Panel you have read and agree to the CMA Terms and Conditions, CMA’s Online Privacy Policy and CMA’s Corporate Policy Respecting Participation in a Survey.