A Highly Trained and Flexible Labour Resource
Canada's immigration policy is increasingly attracting
very highly educated and skilled immigrants. Currently, Canada has thousands of
International Medical Doctors who are permanent residents and citizens of this
country. These Canadians were trained, licensed and practicing physicians in other
countries before immigrating to Canada, but have been unable to access licensure here.
There are well-documented barriers to International Medical Doctors accessing
licensing assessments and residency positions in Ontario.
The inability of these thousands of trained physicians to practice
medicine in Ontario represents a huge loss to the province. Their training, skills and
experience are lost to a province and a country facing desperate skilled health sector
human resource shortages in many areas.
International Medical Doctors:
- have value-added health care skills and experience including:
• clinical experience
• laboratory techniques
• research approaches
• pharmaceutical knowledge
• counselling skills
• case management expertise
• analytical approaches
• familiarity with specific diseases
• medical terminology
- have special qualities resulting from their medical training/career
including:
• professional and ethical attitude
• sensitivity and caring
• decisiveness
• function well under pressure
- have a strong work ethic
- offer workforce stability/retention
- are flexible employees willing to work in a variety of capacities
- bring cultural diversity to the workplace
- add new language and cross-cultural abilities for dealing with
clients
- bring fresh job function perspectives and innovative solutions
- potentially require minimal job-specific training
- have the demonstrated skill capacity to grow with your organization
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