Bank of Canada senior deputy governor Carolyn Rogers gave a speech in Halifax on Tuesday in which she sounded the alarm on Canada’s flagging productivity rates.
My friend’s dad was a doctor in Saudi Arabia and before being able to become a doctor in Canada he would have to have done like a 2 year program that involved him going to other provinces and stuff. His dad apparently didn’t bother going through with it and just went back to Saudi.
Iirc there’s testing and residency requirements that need to be fulfilled. Problem is that the Royal College of Pysicians and Surgeons of Canada hasn’t increased their available residency positions in years … essentially road-blocking the massive increase in doctors we need (especially family doctors).
I know nothing about but was curious why they haven increased their residency positions.
One of the first hits on was this article, it seems like the issue (at least for family doctors) isn’t a lack of available residency positions since 268 positions went unfilled.
Sounds like it has more to do with the job basically sucks compared to other specialties, a few reasons mentioned in the article:
Provinces are effectively forcing family doctors to crank patients through at a high rate since they’re pay is based on the number of pts the see in a day
Family practice involves less collaboration with other physicians, less opportunity for professional growth.
Political climate, notably in Alberta, is outright hostile towards doctors.
Yeah, I’ve had a questionable Nigerian doctor as well. I can’t say for sure whether that’s training, that particular doctor, or just some kind of cultural disconnect. I’d probably need to be a doctor to know.
There is upgrading options in some cases, but I get the sense they’re as much of a clusterfuck as everything else. I think it’s like 50% of MDs that actually end up practicing after coming here.
Oh shit, I must have skipped over the newcomers bit. Yeah, doctors working at Timmies while people can’t get a doctor is also ridiculous.
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My friend’s dad was a doctor in Saudi Arabia and before being able to become a doctor in Canada he would have to have done like a 2 year program that involved him going to other provinces and stuff. His dad apparently didn’t bother going through with it and just went back to Saudi.
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Some sort of standardization test?
I don’t know about the medical field, but we already have that for other professions just between provinces.
Iirc there’s testing and residency requirements that need to be fulfilled. Problem is that the Royal College of Pysicians and Surgeons of Canada hasn’t increased their available residency positions in years … essentially road-blocking the massive increase in doctors we need (especially family doctors).
I know nothing about but was curious why they haven increased their residency positions.
One of the first hits on was this article, it seems like the issue (at least for family doctors) isn’t a lack of available residency positions since 268 positions went unfilled.
Sounds like it has more to do with the job basically sucks compared to other specialties, a few reasons mentioned in the article:
Provinces are effectively forcing family doctors to crank patients through at a high rate since they’re pay is based on the number of pts the see in a day
Family practice involves less collaboration with other physicians, less opportunity for professional growth.
Political climate, notably in Alberta, is outright hostile towards doctors.
Doesn’t really explain what’s hindering doctors trained abroad from becoming doctors here.
Seems to me that a program designed to help foreign trained doctors become licensed here would be a good investment.
Yeah, I’ve had a questionable Nigerian doctor as well. I can’t say for sure whether that’s training, that particular doctor, or just some kind of cultural disconnect. I’d probably need to be a doctor to know.
There is upgrading options in some cases, but I get the sense they’re as much of a clusterfuck as everything else. I think it’s like 50% of MDs that actually end up practicing after coming here.