It will never be resolved. Most provincial healthcare programs are heading towards insolvency and the aging boomer demographic will push many of them over the edge.
You don’t have to lower requirements. Many foreign trained doctors would meet requirements for Canadian doctors.
There are ways to ensure competency and license foreign doctors through clinical assessments and standardized testing.
There is simply no will for this from a beaureaucratic perspective. I personally know of a few foreign physicians that have jumped through the hoops only to join a practice and be treated as second class citizens. Canada is great but not work / take call every holiday great.
Provincial governments have no issue maintaining a doctor shortage because they don’t have the money to pay for more physician services.
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