Sexual Misconduct On A Date Justifies Refusal Of Registration

The personal, or "off-duty", conduct of health professionals is increasingly being brought to the attention of regulators and has become a frequent basis for regulatory action. In a recent decision of the Health Professions Appeal and Review Board, the Board upheld the decision of the Registration Committee of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, denying a medical student graduate, Jesse Leontowicz, a certificate of registration authorizing postgraduate education in Ontario due to his off-duty conduct.

The Saskatchewan Decision

Leontowicz was a graduate of the University of Saskatchewan College of Medicine in 2019. In 2018, while in medical school, a woman with whom Leontowicz had met for a date complained to the Regina Police Services that Leontowicz had sexually assaulted her. Although the Crown Prosecutor determined that there was no reasonable prospect of conviction and withdrew the charges, the complainant subsequently made a complaint about Leontowicz to