Mithril Posted March 21, 2012 Report Share Posted March 21, 2012 You can read the document here: http://med.ubc.ca/education/imgs-canadians-studying-abroad/img_bc_and_canadians_studying_abroad-briefing-march-2012/ There will be 40 new positions for IMGs in family medicine over the next several years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mourning Cloak Posted March 21, 2012 Report Share Posted March 21, 2012 There will be 40 new positions for IMGs in family medicine over the next several years. Interesting document! I think this sentence is worth reading more than once: Canadian students who are unsuccessful in being admitted to a Canadian medical school and decide to attend a foreign medical school, do so largely because they believe there is a shortage of physicians in Canada, and there will be opportunities for them to return to Canada to practice medicine. Also I didn't realize that IMGs in BC had to pass the QE Part I before being eligible for CaRMS! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
medisforme Posted March 28, 2012 Report Share Posted March 28, 2012 That is a drop in the bucket compared to the total number of IMG's applying for residency positions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flow Cytometry Posted March 29, 2012 Report Share Posted March 29, 2012 While they increase the number of medical students, the number of residency spots has mainly been increased in family practice, but not the other specialties. The competition to go for specialties other than family is going to be more in the future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zunik Posted March 30, 2012 Report Share Posted March 30, 2012 That is a drop in the bucket compared to the total number of IMG's applying for residency positions. Do you know of any official statistics on the number of IMG's applying each year? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mithril Posted March 30, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 30, 2012 Do you know of any official statistics on the number of IMG's applying each year? http://www.carms.ca/eng/operations_R1reports_11_e.shtml Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leviathan Posted March 30, 2012 Report Share Posted March 30, 2012 They are adding more spots, yet still requiring you to do an OSCE that isn't held until AFTER CaRMS is over with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rmorelan Posted March 30, 2012 Report Share Posted March 30, 2012 They are adding more spots, yet still requiring you to do an OSCE that isn't held until AFTER CaRMS is over with. ha, joyful these spots aren't specific for Canadians coming home as well just any IMG. That makes sense but I hope they weren't trying to imply otherwise. Do they in the document actually say there is a shortage? I mean people can "believe" whatever they want but the report should probably actually state the current state of things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leviathan Posted March 30, 2012 Report Share Posted March 30, 2012 ha, joyful these spots aren't specific for Canadians coming home as well just any IMG. That makes sense but I hope they weren't trying to imply otherwise. Do they in the document actually say there is a shortage? I mean people can "believe" whatever they want but the report should probably actually state the current state of things. The ironic thing is that by implementing an OSCE that occurs after new grads have matched elsewhere, these spots are implied for immigrants to Canada who are looking to retrain or for those who fail to match and have to sit out a year. I don't think the document mentions a shortage, although there is a shortage of family physicians in many regions of BC. Even in Metro Vancouver it is very difficult to find a family physician accepting new patients. Although it is easy to go to a walk-in clinic and the wait is usually 30-60 mins. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhiPhenomenon Posted April 5, 2012 Report Share Posted April 5, 2012 Canadian students who are unsuccessful in being admitted to a Canadian medical school and decide to attend a foreign medical school, do so largely because they believe there is a shortage of physicians in Canada, and there will be opportunities for them to return to Canada to practice medicine. PR fail. I actually had a chat with Dr. Masri (head of Orthopeadics at UBC) about that a little while ago. He's pretty convinced that these new positions are opening up to accomadate the offspring of some well connected parents who wanted to make sure their darling children who were forced to go overseas for medical training will have a career to come back to. I don't think he's wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr.Henderson Posted April 5, 2012 Report Share Posted April 5, 2012 Canadian students who are unsuccessful in being admitted to a Canadian medical school and decide to attend a foreign medical school, do so largely because they believe there is a shortage of physicians in Canada, and there will be opportunities for them to return to Canada to practice medicine. PR fail. I actually had a chat with Dr. Masri (head of Orthopeadics at UBC) about that a little while ago. He's pretty convinced that these new positions are opening up to accomadate the offspring of some well connected parents who wanted to make sure their darling children who were forced to go overseas for medical training will have a career to come back to. I don't think he's wrong. I wouldn't be surprised, I've heard of several doctors' kids going to Ireland with no reported concerns wrt returning to Canada. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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