Dr. Shortt, Plastic Surgeon
Under our open methodology this clinic scores 75.9/100 on structural verification: physician certification, licences, facility and legal-entity traceability, identifier disclosure and advertising honesty.
Rank #10 of 22 ranked clinics · last checked 21 September 2026
- Specialist-led
Summary
Solo-surgeon plastic-surgery clinic operating from the Briarwood Cosmetic Surgical Centre building in Oakville. The responsible physician is named with role on the clinic's own site and is listed in the national specialist register with a current certification in plastic surgery. No matching record was found for this practice in Ontario's Out-of-Hospital Premises inspection listing; a differently-named practice is listed at the same building.
Registers read for the jurisdiction: ON.
Axis by axis
rubric value 1–5 · ? could not verify (no points, not a negative finding) · — not applicable: this country has no register of that class · OFF official register · SEC secondary source
| Axis | Finding (rubric anchor) | Value | Source class | Weight | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M1 | Specialist certification of the responsible physician Found, status current; the registered specialty matches what this physician advertises. Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada directory: Shortt, Rodger Allan Dawson, Oakville, ON, category Fellow, designation FRCSC, certification Plastic Surgery (Primary, Certification by Examination, 2009-06-30). Specialty and city match what the clinic publishes; status current. [rcpsc] |
OFF | 26 | 2026-09-20 | |
| M2 | Identifiability of the responsible physician Physician(s) named with role and tied to this address. Sole named surgeon, tied to this address, with role stated throughout the site. [site] |
SEC | 16 | 2026-08-29 | |
| M3 | Basic medical licence Matched by name (surname stem and given name or initial; a second identifier where the name is ambiguous). CPSO physician register: Shortt, Rodger Allan Dawson — CPSO 81204, active, Plastic Surgery, Oakville. Register searched by surname in the operator’s browser on 2026-09-21 (the site-wide Cloudflare check clears by itself in a browser; scripted requests get HTTP 403). The clinic publishes no CPSO number, so the match is by name. read via browser [cpso] |
OFF | 8 | 2026-09-21 | |
| M4 | Facility registration Could not verify — no points, counts against coverage, not a negative finding. Reason: Queried, no match. Last attempt: facility_registry, 29 August 2026 — 0 matching rows (CPSO Out-of-Hospital Premises listing was searched by surgeon surname and the building name 'Briarwood'; the only Briarwood-address entry found ('GraceMed Briarwood') is a differently-named, unrelated registrant. The register exists and covers only premises performing procedures under anesthesia/sed) Register queried, no record found. CPSO Out-of-Hospital Premises listing was searched by surgeon surname and the building name 'Briarwood'; the only Briarwood-address entry found ('GraceMed Briarwood') is a differently-named, unrelated registrant. The register exists and covers only premises performing procedures under anesthesia/sedation; absence is not evidence of non-registration. |
? | ? | 10 | 2026-09-21 |
| M5 | Legal-entity traceability Only a brand, without a legal form and without a responsible person. Whatever we find ourselves is shown on the profile as a fact and does not raise this cell. Brand only; no distinct legal-entity name is published. A federal corporate-name search for 'Rodger Shortt' returned 0 results. [site] [corpsearch] |
OFF | 8 | 2026-08-29 | |
| M6 | Self-disclosure of identifiers Logos without numbers. FRCSC credential is claimed by name; no registration number is published. [site] |
SEC | 10 | 2026-08-29 | |
| M7 | Advertising honesty No pattern from the lexicon found. No superlative, guarantee or '100%'-class language found on the surveyed pages; tone is personal narrative. [site] |
SEC | 12 | 2026-08-29 | |
| M8 | Cross-locale consistency Could not verify — no points, counts against coverage, not a negative finding. Reason: Single language front. Last attempt: clinic_site, 20 September 2026 — one language front; no hreflang alternates or language links The clinic site publishes one language front; nothing to compare. |
? | ? | 5 | 2026-09-21 |
| M9 | Patient documents None. No dedicated informed-consent, risk/contraindication, aftercare, revision-policy or complaint-route content was found on the surveyed pages, including the FAQ. [site] [site-faq] |
SEC | 5 | 2026-08-29 |
Score ceilings
No ceiling applies. We never apply one on 'not found' alone.
Holds
No hold on this profile.
Inclusion policy
Four mechanical conditions. The first three decide whether a clinic is listed at all; the fourth decides whether it can be scored.
| Identifiable: live public surface + working in-country contact | verified yes [site] |
|---|---|
| Provides the service itself (not an aggregator, booking site or tour packager) | verified yes [site] |
| In scope: the intervention is performed by a physician | verified yes [site] |
| Names a responsible physician | verified yes [site] |
Who is responsible
Named physicians and the legal entity, as published and as matched in the registers. A missing number is a statement about disclosure, not about licensing.
| Physician | Role | Register ID |
|---|---|---|
| Dr. Rodger Shortt, MD, FRCSC [site] [cpso] | Plastic surgeon | CPSO 81204 |
Legal entity: could not verify
Scope and procedure segments
Clinic focus: specialist (no focus adjustment) [site]
What we could not verify
- M4 · Facility registration — Queried, no match
- M8 · Cross-locale consistency — Single language front
These cells score nothing and are not negative findings. A cell on a register that is closed to machine queries is left out of the coverage calculation; the others count against it. Each one names why it is empty; an attempt that did not complete is re-run in the next collection pass. If you can point to a public source, send it.
Contact details
| Website | https://drshortt.com/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | (905) 849-4282 |
| Address | 406 North Service Road East, Unit 1, Oakville, ON L6H 5R2 |
| City | Oakville |
For identification only; details change — verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | Class | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| site | https://drshortt.com/ | clinic's own site | address, phone, surgeon named with role, menu, marketing language | 29 August 2026 |
| site-faq | https://drshortt.com/faqs/ | clinic's own site | checked for patient-document content; none found | 29 August 2026 |
| cpso-listing | https://www.cpso.on.ca/Public/Clinic-Listing | official register | GET https://www.cpso.on.ca/Public/Clinic-Listing — searched for 'Shortt', 'Briarwood'; no matching row found for this practice | 29 August 2026 |
| corpsearch | https://ised-isde.canada.ca/cc/lgcy/fdrlCrpSrch.html | official register | POST corpName=Rodger+Shortt — 0 results were found, 0 returned. | 29 August 2026 |
| opsdt | https://dialogue.cpso.on.ca/tribunal-outcomes | official register | GET — no entry for Shortt among named OPSDT tribunal outcomes of the past 12 months | 29 August 2026 |
| rcpsc | https://www.royalcollege.ca/en/directory/search.html | official register | Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada — public directory of Fellows, Maintenance of Certification participants, Diplomates and Resident Affiliates (national specialist-certification register). Machine query as the directory page itself issues it: GET https://prod-rcdirectory-srch.search.windows.net/indexes/prod-rcd-en-index/docs?api-version=2020-06-30&search=*&$count=true&$filter=last_name eq 'Shortt' with the api-key published in the page component configuration at https://www.royalcollege.ca/content/rcpsc-site-v2/ca/en/directory/search/jcr:content/root/container/columncontrol/path1/directorysearch.model.json — returned row: "last_name":"Shortt","first_name":"Rodger","middle_name":"Allan Dawson","city":"Oakville","stateprov":"ON","country":"Canada","category":"Fellow","designation":"FRCSC","fellow_date":"2009-06-30","certifications":[{"discipline":"Plastic Surgery","certification_date":"2009-06-30","type":"Primary","category":"Certification by Examination"}] | 20 September 2026 |
| cpso | https://register.cpso.on.ca/ | official register | registration number, registration status, specialties, practice city | 21 September 2026 |
Change history
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 22 September 2026 | sources.rcpsc.kind: "official" → "secondary" (Methodology v1.3 (owner rulings 2026-09-22) — rule 7 — society route "rcpsc" is secondary provenance) |
| 21 September 2026 | axes.M3: null → 4 (Retry cell closed: the CPSO register was read in the operator’s browser.) |
| 20 September 2026 | axes.M3: null → null (Re-run: the CPSO register answers a site-wide Cloudflare challenge; logged with the response (v1.2 pass 1).) |
| 20 September 2026 | axes.M1: null → 5 (Re-run against the national specialist register (Royal College directory), which is open and machine-queryable (v1.2 pass 1).) |
| 18 September 2026 | axes.M4: 3 → null (Methodology v1.2 (owner ruling 2026-09-18): a register miss is never a value — M4 = 3 was written for "register exists, no record found"; re-typed not_found with the logged query) |
| 29 August 2026 | Initial collection. |
Correction or right of reply
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