OSMV Announcement: BC Driver Fitness Handbook for Medical Professionals

A new BC Driver Fitness Handbook for Medical Professionals is now available on the website of the Office of the Superintendent of Motor Vehicles (OSMV), www.pssg.gov.bc.ca/osmv/shareddocs/DriverFitnessMedPro.pdf

The 152-page Handbook provides medical professionals with the information that is required by OSMV when determining a patient’s fitness to drive.

The handbook is a condensed, quick reference version of the more detailed 2010 BC Guide in Determining Fitness to Drive which was jointly developed by OSMV and the BC Medical Association (BCMA) to ensure that driver fitness determinations are made using the best medical evidence available.

The complete Guide and the new Handbook are both available on OSMV’s website at www.pssg.gov.bc.ca/osmv/medical-fitness.    

If you have any questions, you can contact OSMV driver medical fitness staff via a dedicated phone line for medical professionals: 250-953-8612

If you have a physician’s report or medical information to submit to OSMV, please fax it to: 250-952-6888

If patients have driver fitness questions, we have a toll-free hotline they can use to reach our driver fitness specialists: 1-855-387-7747.