Can anyone tell me that MCC considers MBBS degree as masters? MBBS done from pakistan
Most medical degrees are considered professional degrees. Assumed you have researched how difficult it is to become a physician in Canada as an IMG. You will have to repeat your residency if you can find a residency position after the Canadian medical students have been matched with their residency positions or try to get a position that allows you to be supervised while practicing in an underserved community and will have to commit to practicing it these underserved communities for a certain amount of years. There an only a small amount of spots in certain provinces and usually limited to family practice. Most leftover residency spots are GPs but also pathology, psychiatry, public health and a few more. Certain specialties will never be on the leftover residency list. You have a higher chance of getting a residency as an IMG if you are fluent in French and if you want to be a GP. Most leftover residency spots will be in smaller to mid-sized communities and in provinces where the rate of pay for physicians are lower. There is certainly attempts to try to license more IMGs especially to become GPs due to a huge shortage of GPs and because most Canadian medical graduates don’t want to become GPs. Most Canadian physicians are so busy that they are unwilling to take on IMGs to supervise because they don’t have the time and already struggling to meet the demands of their patients plus paperwork. There doesn’t seem to be compensation involved or minimal compensation involved to act as a supervisor and review all patient care of another physician. Increasing the number of residency spots in hospitals is also not as easy as politicians may think. The teaching hospitals need to ensure that every resident is able to get enough hands on experience. This is especially important for surgeons or any specialists who do surgical procedures. There seems to be a push for IMGs who do secure residency and have had a good amount of of practice experience in their home country to be able to complete a checklist and not complete the whole residency period again. That should lead to faster licensing times for IMGs as long as they were already a well-trained physician although there is still time needed to learn different terminology, different procedures, some may not have access to all the various equipment available in Canada depending on where they were trained and what kind of hospital they worked at. The waitlist in the medical system are primarily due to a shortage of GPs, shortage of longterm care beds, a shortage of personal support workers, an underfunded homecare system, budget issues throughout the healthcare system including hospitals (most MDs only receive a small percentage of the OR time that they want/require), huge shortage of supportive staff especially nurses but also surgical techs, diagnostic techs and others not to mention ageing population and increases in immigration. Getting a job in Canada in certain specialties is actually quite hard. Many end up taking locums here and there to cover maternity leaves or leaves due to illness or just leaves for a long vacation. Many also end up working part-time in multiple establishments. Those who want to find full-time jobs after residency or fellowship (fellowship is almost standard these days) end up working abroad often going to the US even though they would prefer to practice in the US. Some return to Canada when they can secure a full-time job but many never return. The public is under the false impression that waitlists are primarily due to physician shortage and that a physicians will have an easy time finding work in Canada. If you 100% want to continue working as a physician I would consider immigrating elsewhere else unless you did your medical school and training in specific countries (US, UK, Ireland, South Africa, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Australia, NZ and Switzerland although I may have missed a country). For English speaking counties the UK and Ireland are probably the easiest countries to work in and remain longterm and the US is relatively easy to practice in but there are often some limitations. Many are required to practice in underserved for example.
