Quebec passes law requiring doctors to work in the public system for 5 years after med school. Doctors will also need to obtain special authorization to work in the private system
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.
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.
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.
They will do everything they can to prevent you from working
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.
If you want doctors to stick around you have to offer a city where a doctor's wage is worth living on
Would this prevent doctors from going to private practice in another province?
It sounds like both doctors and dentists licenses in Canada are restricted at the provincial level. So they could move, but would have to recertify in another province. I know for some of the dental schools, you can graduate and go through the licensing process in any province, but for others, you can only practice dentistry in the province of the school you graduated from. That prevents out of province kids from going to Manitoba for one of a handful of placements and then immediately going back after graduating. Medical is probably similar. It sounds like there are a lot of high barriers in place to keep their investments secure, but those also prevent us from recognizing the qualifications of immigrants. Sadly, I hear a lot of complaints about that from taxi drivers.
If they revoked licenses for evasion
Ah, that makes sense since the licenses aren't federally issued