Tag: internationally trained physicians

PEI issues invitations to Express Entry Labour Impact & Business Work

McMaster and PEI launch program for internationally-trained physicians

Posted on Shaikh RehmanPosted in Immigration Canada

A new program will make it easier for internationally-trained doctors to practice medicine in Canada. The PEI-McMaster Collaborative Hospitalist Fellowship will provide international medicine graduates (IMGs) with a one-year training program in internal medicine, helping them to become licensed to practice in PEI after completion. Physicians who complete the fellowship will be expected to practice […]

Canada removing barriers to PR for physicians

Canada removing barriers to PR for physicians

Posted on Shaikh RehmanPosted in Immigration Canada, Internationally Educated Health professionals

As Canada continues to experience a nation-wide shortage of qualified physicians, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) has made changes that will exempt physicians already in Canada as temporary residents from some of the current requirements involved in obtaining permanent resident status through Express Entry programs. Most notably, physicians who are already working in Canada often find themselves unable […]