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Originally posted by john_colasante
First, It's not your government's responsibility to give them an impression that they will be able to work. That is your first problem.
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Agreed, except that we need doctors, and we ARE telling them that they will be able to work. It's a typically canadian situation. We have a "feel good" system that we can brag about, but doesn't work.
Imagine if I hired you to work up here. You sell everything, move your family. You show up at the door and say "I'm ready to go", and I say, "well, I can't actually hire you until you get the proper documents". Then offer you no help getting them. You'd probably think I gave you a pretty raw deal.
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They may be terrible doctors and you don't know that before they get there. Second, if they can't pass the same board test that Canadian doctors took then that's the end of the story. Maybe they can't pass it.
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You're absolutely right. But most ARE passing the Medical Council of Canada's examination of basic medical knowledge. But after that they are required to do 2-6 years of additional training, but they have difficulty getting medical schools to recognize their training. Under 20% are able to get admitted for addition training (that many of them don't need anyway).