A Montreal doctor is pictured performing a procedure. Federal data suggest Canada will be short some 44,000 doctors, including over 30,000 family doctors and general practitioners, by 2028.
The country's medical schools turn away more than 1,000 Canadian doctors trained abroad annually, even though the country is facing a physician shortage. But they still manage to find residency spots for foreign nationals who are much less likely to stay and help chip away at the physician deficit.A Montreal doctor performs a procedure. Federal data suggest Canada will be short some 44,000 doctors, including over 30,000 family doctors and general practitioners, by 2028.
But the medical schools that run residency programs still find room for foreign nationals from countries like Oman, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia — people who frequently have no intention of staying here to work over the long term. "There is a tremendous pool of international medical graduates who are talented, who are dedicated, who want to take care of their fellow Canadians."
"It diminishes the pipeline. We just won't see people becoming doctors. And that's dangerous — we need physicians. We need to reduce barriers to tap into that internationally trained talent," he said.Canada is losing out on hundreds of qualified Canadian doctors trained abroad who can’t practice because they find it difficult to get residencies here due to a combination of red tape and bias.
"We're in a dire doctor shortage and there are literally thousands of Canadians who are not only prepared but also willing and qualified and desperate to do the job they were trained to do. But they are sidelined by their own government in favour of people who come from these oil-rich countries," Rosemary Pawliuk, the group's president, told CBC News.
That explains why the current system continues, Pawliuk said: foreign trainees are a cash cow for the medical schools that administer the residency program. She's studied the visa trainee issue and has found that Canadian taxpayers actually foot part of the bill for foreign residents.
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