I certainly have had a lot of international medical graduates reach out to me personally and certainly as a member of Parliament to help them understand the system and help them navigate it.
I guess the fact of the matter is that it's very difficult for them to meet these requirements. Specifically, there was a Ukrainian medical graduate willing—think about this—to take a family medicine spot anywhere in Canada who was able to apply to the CaRMS matching system and, in the second round, there are 99 unfilled family medicine spots in Canada this year for residents in training. There are 99. For some reason, he didn't get one, which is absolutely shocking because he tells me he's willing to go anywhere in Canada to get a residency spot.
It seems like all we're doing is talking and talking, and I guess the question that remains is.... Let's look at what happens in Nova Scotia. You need requirements for licensure, which means you need to be accepted from the World Directory of Medical Schools. It also means that you need to have some part of your LMCC, and you need to have documentation that you are certified with the College of Family Physicians or that you completed a one-year rotating internship in Canada before 1993.
Does this mean that all we're going to do is ask international medical graduates to, again, compete in the CaRMS matching system in round two?