We need these doctors! Canadian hair-splitting costing us doctors!
There are currently some 200 Ontarians who graduate from foreign medical schools every year who are unable to find residency spots to complete their training, so frequently, turn to the U.S. where they are immediately welcomed and where most will spend their careers.
Only Newfoundland and Alberta welcome all foreign-trained Canadian medical graduates. Memorial University in Newfoundland and Labrador even sends a recruiter to the Irish universities to invite them home. But in Ontario, these same Canadian citizens, trained in medicine usually in Commonwealth countries like Ireland, England and Australia, are considered foreign medical students. And that designation means that they cannot apply for the first round of residency spots in Canadian university teaching hospitals, or even the second round to fill any specialist spots still vacant.
Placing them in a pool, along with all other ‘foreign trained’ medical students adds at least another year to their program, and most have significant student debt as well.
Ontario is short some 1,585 physicians, according to the Ontario Medical Association, and this number is up 60% in the last two years. By 2010, the shortage is expected to reach between 2,400 and 3,400 affecting medical care for some 1.5 to 2 million Ontario residents.
The U.S., according to one aspiring medical student, ‘is good at cutting red tape for services they need.’ The schools attended by American graduates are subjected to an evaluation by an international team that guarantees they meet the Canadian standards. If they do, the students do not have to go through as assessment process, making them immediately eligible for U.S residency spots.
There are currently some 200 Canadian students studying at five Irish universities, and approximately 83% of them want to return to Canada to practice medicine.
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We need these doctors! Canadian hair-splitting costing us doctors!
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