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Update
23rd January 2008
We have had great response to our new and updated website (launched
21st Dec 2007). Membership is now free and we encourage you to
become a member. Add your voice to our on-going efforts to help
qualified IMDs get into practice in Ontario. Only with a strong
voice will IMDs be heard in the corridors that matter - the College
of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO), the Ontario Post
Graduate Deans of Medicine and the Ministry of Health.
At present, there are far more IMDs immigrating to Canada than there
are residencies. It is estimated that for every one IMD who gets a
residency each year in Ontario, four to five others are rejected,
despite passing all the required exams. This is a massive waste of
potential that the government, the post graduate deans and medical
directors and the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario
seems to be complacent about.
Even worse, there are many experienced specialists who are now
living in Ontario, who have passed the Medical Council of Canada and
the IMG Ontario (formerly O-IMG, Ontario IMG Clearinghouse, and now
called the CEHPEA) exams. They are unable to get the Practice Ready
Assessments or the conditional license to find supervised
employment. These advanced level assessments are controlled by the
medical deans and program directors, who are doctors in the
universities, and of late, they have been exceedingly stingy with
these positions. In fact, for some specialties, they have offered no
positions in 2007, yet they participated in a charade of conducting
interviews and running clinical exams.
AIPSO is not merely a service organization. We do help IMDs in their
quest for licensure. We developed comprehensive websites that are
now used by many other organisations which help IMDs.
But AIPSO is the only organisation that transcends merely dispensing
of information. We are here to advocate for all the doctors who have
passed the Canadian medical exams, who are well qualified, but are
unable to serve their adopted country due to systemic bias and
apathy. We need all of you to sign on to the movement to correct
this injustice.
Ontario's long suffering communities need family doctors.
Specialists are needed to help alleviate the long wait times. We
have hundreds of IMDs who are well qualified and ready to serve. |
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