Dozens of foreign-trained doctors are now working under special licenses requiring supervision in B.C. hospitals, while more are being recruited for deployment as family doctors in urgent care centres, CTV News has learned. Health Minister Adrian Dix confirmed that the province has employed “associate physicians(opens in a new tab)” in acute care, with 120 more positions posted in an effort to get an estimated 400 internationally-educated doctors into B.C.’s health-care system. “Working in team-based centres, sponsored by health authorities and overseen by the college -- that we would not waste the talent of all these people and their extended training, but use it to add to and support the healthcare system,” he said in a one-on-one interview. Dix emphasized that only those with degrees and at least one or two years of hands-on training are eligible, and that they’ll be working in a highly-regulated sector under the supervision of fully-licenced doctors ... CLICK HERE for the full sto...
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