1/2 Canada should follow the lead of the USA in making it easier for doctors to be licensed in multiple states:pic.twitter.com/mnOwtth3sA
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1/2 Canada should follow the lead of the USA in making it easier for doctors to be licensed in multiple states:pic.twitter.com/mnOwtth3sA
Don’t have to go to US for example. Australia (similarly a constitutional monarchy: in answer to your constitutional barriers question) solved it with AHPRAhttps://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/health-care-medicine-doctors-locum-travel-licence-1.4795274 …
Thanks for another good example; I am sure there are many. Canadians need to overcome this sense that their constitution is immutable.
In this situation the framework is already in place with the various interprovincial free trade agreements. The constitutional arguments are a smoke screen for inaction on the part of the Colleges.
My wife is dealing with this right now. She's working in Ontario but the process of getting her license in BC will take at least 9-10 months. It's extremely bureaucratic and tedious for no apparent reason.
Thank you for covering this important issue Andre @picardonhealth!!!
As an early-career physician who has held independent/regular licenses with 4 different regulatory bodies in Canada, I can attest to the frustration and inefficiency you described.
If a resident wishes to advance training in another centre, even for 2 weeks, required to go through extensive application process and $$$. Even if licence for home province in good standing. It's craziness.
I ask myself the same question for nursing.
Absolutely. I’m in the process of obtaining a license for Nunavut for a locum to cover vacation. I can see the same patients in Ottawa but require a mountain of paperwork to provide care in Iqaluit.
2/2 There is a broader issue here: Perhaps no country has a constitution that is such a barrier to national collaboration and the lack of political will to change it -- what other developed countries have internal trade barriers?
Interesting because all
provinces accept @csmls national certification to practice as medical laboratory technologists in clinical labs, For those who do not know, med lab techs deal in life & death for patients, Their work affects diagnoses & treatment.
.Once a bureaucratic agency forms, it’s prime directive is to protect its own existence. No provincial medical college will voluntarily decrease its own mandate without a big fight.
The role of the licencing bodies is to protect the public. Everyone agrees. But upholding standards doesn't differ between BC or ON or NS or NU.
Should be the same for nurses as well.
Makes it very difficult for surgeons to get access to valuable training with other more experienced colleagues across the country.
Please help advocate for us. If there's one thing most doctors are bad at its advocating for ourselves.
Same as Nurses...if we move, we need to take different exams and pay for different college fees, depending on where in Canada we go.
Also, why isn't ther a single registration for registered nurses in Canada as well????
or for engineers, geologists, physiotherapists, etc. etc. etc. It's absolutely maddening and the only ones to benefit from this archaic system are the professional licensing organizations, not the clients / customers / patients.
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