I think it's hard. The term “international medical graduates” represents a huge group of people, and the people who self-identify as international medical graduates are all very different. It is a very heterogeneous group. Medical education systems are very different around the world. There are people who will say they went to medical school, but they have never seen a patient because their education system, as it is structured, may give them an MD but doesn't actually give them any clinical experience. There are other people who say they are doctors, but they may not have actually practised in 15 years, for whatever reasons. The integration of these very different people with different educational backgrounds and different practice experiences is a very mixed bag. We have to be careful with broadly using the term “IMGs” broadly. We have to understand the range of people who are captured within that term.
What I would say is that all jurisdictions have tried very hard and have seen a quantitative increase in their numbers--quite a substantial increase--and I'm happy to provide at least some of the data. I don't have access to all of them, but I can provide data about the increase in many jurisdictions, not just of total doctors--to your previous question--but of the specific IMG subset and the increased trend line. I believe I can get that for you for several jurisdictions.
