From the ArcaMax Publishing, Health & Fitness Newsletter:
http://www.arcamax.com/news/healthtips/s-381988-553886
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.