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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‘This is a crisis’: Head of medical association warns that the health-care system faces ‘collapse’

The new president of the Canadian Medical Association (CMA) said Wednesday he fears the country's fragile health-care system will deteriorate further without an injection of cash — and a plan to…

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Access to Health Care: Free, but for all? Nearly nine million Canadians report chronic difficulty getting help

Canadians say they have less confidence and more difficulty accessing health care than Americans To read the complete article, please click on the link below: https://angusreid.org/canada-health-care-issues/

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Do you want to put an end to the continuous and expensive test-taking and CaRMS applications, once and for all? 

To move the needle in your favour, we need DATA that is Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound to create concrete goals. For more details please click on the provided…

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