Every year, Canadian Medical Schools train far less doctors than France, Germany, Britain, Australia or Spain.
Canadian provinces make it extraordinarily difficult for foreign-trained doctors to practice. It doesn’t matter how knowledgeable and good you are. They will do everything they can to prevent you from working
It’s an absolute disgrace. It’s like the goal is to ensure there are as few doctors as possible.
Unfortunately, the public isn’t really aware of this. And because the public isn’t aware, the political class doesn’t act.
They want money to flow to their educational institutions and would lose out allowing foreign degrees and some of them don’t think other countries are up to the same standards.
Edit:Not just doctors any foreign degree not EU or American is impossible or close to.
The collège des médecins, the authority on how many people can study to become medical doctors, is a god damn bottleneck. They’re in on it. They limit the number of people who can become doctors to keep the demand and wages high.
According to the Medical Council of Canada there’s a lot more to it than a single certification exam.
Complete a language test (for those whose first language is not French or English)
Verify your medical credentials
Pass the MCCQE Part I
Canada’s national standardized exam assessing candidates at a level expected of a student about to graduate with a medical degree in Canada.
Pass the NAC Examination
Prepare for and challenge Canada’s national standardized exam that assesses international medical students’ and IMGs’ readiness to enter supervised training in Canada.
CaRMS match
Available for international medical graduates (IMGs) who have not completed postgraduate training or who have completed postgraduate training outside of Canada and are willing to retrain.
Practice-Ready Assessment programs
In this pathway, IMGs can apply to provincial Practice-Ready Assessment (PRA) programs to complete a clinical workplace-based assessment over a period of 12 weeks (unpaid).
International residency programs
The College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC), the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (RCPSC), and the Collège des médecins du Québec (CMQ) set requirements and any applicable assessments for these pathways to licensure.
That, and foreign trained doctors can often be thrown into situations during their Canadian training that they weren’t originally trained for. An ophthalmologist into an emergency room, for example.
Every year, Canadian Medical Schools train far less doctors than France, Germany, Britain, Australia or Spain.
Canadian provinces make it extraordinarily difficult for foreign-trained doctors to practice. It doesn’t matter how knowledgeable and good you are. They will do everything they can to prevent you from working
It’s an absolute disgrace. It’s like the goal is to ensure there are as few doctors as possible.
Unfortunately, the public isn’t really aware of this. And because the public isn’t aware, the political class doesn’t act.
They want money to flow to their educational institutions and would lose out allowing foreign degrees and some of them don’t think other countries are up to the same standards.
Edit:Not just doctors any foreign degree not EU or American is impossible or close to.
The collège des médecins, the authority on how many people can study to become medical doctors, is a god damn bottleneck. They’re in on it. They limit the number of people who can become doctors to keep the demand and wages high.
My doctor called it a certification exam to prove an incoming doctor can do the work. He came from Hongkong.
He says certification, you say conspiracy, different PoV I guess.
According to the Medical Council of Canada there’s a lot more to it than a single certification exam.
Canada’s national standardized exam assessing candidates at a level expected of a student about to graduate with a medical degree in Canada.
Prepare for and challenge Canada’s national standardized exam that assesses international medical students’ and IMGs’ readiness to enter supervised training in Canada.
Available for international medical graduates (IMGs) who have not completed postgraduate training or who have completed postgraduate training outside of Canada and are willing to retrain.
In this pathway, IMGs can apply to provincial Practice-Ready Assessment (PRA) programs to complete a clinical workplace-based assessment over a period of 12 weeks (unpaid).
The College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC), the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (RCPSC), and the Collège des médecins du Québec (CMQ) set requirements and any applicable assessments for these pathways to licensure.
That, and foreign trained doctors can often be thrown into situations during their Canadian training that they weren’t originally trained for. An ophthalmologist into an emergency room, for example.