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Quebec urged to fast-track U.S. doctors

MONTREAL (UPI) -- A suburban Montreal city council wants the province of Quebec to ease restrictions on U.S.-trained doctors to alleviate a physician shortage.

The Cote St. Luc City Council adopted a resolution Monday night urging the Quebec government and the College of Physicians to drop requirements for U.S. doctors and those from other Canadian provinces to rewrite their medical exams and then apply for a residency at a hospital before obtaining a permit to practice, The Gazette newspaper reported.

Provincial government statistics indicate there is a shortage of some 800 family doctors and forecasts said it would take at least five years to make up the shortage as the population ages, the newspaper said.

In June, the neighboring province of Ontario, experiencing similar shortages, introduced a bill that would fast-track doctors "already practicing elsewhere in Canada, the United States or other countries with a comparable health and medical education system," the report said. That measure is before the provincial legislature.

Copyright 2008 by United Press International

This news arrived on: 07/22/2008

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