Wednesday, July 2, 2008

Doctor Shortage Before Our Noses


We've got good news and we've got bad news.

The good news: 12 new doctors from 10 countries were made Canadian citizens yesterday.

The bad: there are somewhere between 400 and 800 foreign-trained doctors living in B.C. who would like to work as doctors, but have yet to be licensed to practice.

Will any government ever act on this continuing scandal?

2 comments:

Robert W. said...

Ditto on nurses, engineers, dentists, architects, and a whole host of other well trained professionals. It's more than sad.

Anonymous said...

It's ridiculous David, like our scholastic standards are so high.
Have them write a few tests and if they do okay, to a residence. If they don't do okay, give them some training and retest and residence.
So simple.