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17 Jan 2025

Canada has a doctor shortage, but thousands of foreign-trained physicians already here still face barriers

Author: admintech | Filed under: Finance/ Money
Healthcare workers tend to patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) at Scarborough Health Network’s Centenary Hospital, in north-east Toronto, on Apr. 8, 2021. Advocacy groups say in Ontario and Quebec there are more than 3,500 internationally trained physicians with the vast majority of them not working in their field.

Millions of Canadians do not have access to a family doctor. Thousands of internationally trained physicians living in Canada could help bring that number down but are currently unable to work as doctors because of several hurdles.

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