A doctor back home, a Dollarama cashier in Canada: Will Ontario’s plan ease way for foreign-trained MDs?

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Randall Denley: Ontario foolish to train foreign doctors who don’t stick around to treat Canadians

Why is Ontario, a province where 1.8 million people have no family doctor, devoting hundreds of prime medical school spots to students from Saudi Arabia, future doctors who will help…

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Poilievre calling for national standardized test to license doctors, nurses trained outside of Canada

OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is calling for a national standardized testing process to be created in order to speed up the licensing process for doctors and nurses who are…

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Canada is short of doctors — and it’s turning away hundreds of its own physicians each year

The country's health-care system is suffering from an acute shortage of doctors — even as hundreds of qualified Canadian physicians trained abroad are turned away each year because of a tangle of…

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New Policy Brief: Expanding Pathways to Licensure for Internationally Trained Physicians in Ontario

The World Education Services (WES) in collaboration with Internationally Trained Physicians of Ontario (ITPO), has recently produced a brief which examines the stakeholder commitments, policy changes, and investments required to…

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Amid a chronic shortage, B.C. at risk of losing hundreds of internationally-trained doctors

Internationally-trained doctors are speaking out about B.C.’s particularly restrictive licensing qualifications. Some say they are leaving the province to practice medicine elsewhere as a result. To read the article, please…

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Sign the petition to prevent internationally trained physicians move from BC to other provinces

We have just started a petition calling upon the College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia and others involved in Practice Ready Assessment-British Columbia (PRA-BC) to amend the eligibility…

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