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From what I understand Doctors and Dentists that immigrate into Canada have a hard long road of needing to be "recertified". This means extensive money spent going back to university for a few years prior to even being able to work in the field or even open their own practice.
A family friend was a dentist overseas with his own practice he ran for years, it took him years to be "recertified" like many other dentists coming to Canada. He spent thousands of dollars in fees alone.
His wife was a dentist as well but ended up not going through the process when they moved as money was tight for both of them. Instead she had opted to recertify as a dentil hygienist.
Both are amazing in dentistry and IMO are better dentists than the few different practices I have been through in my life. So good that I travel 2 hours to go specifically to their practice.
Why are people so obsessed with getting new doctors from immigration? Where's the call to increase schooling capacity?
Our capacity for training doctors and nurses hasn't increased in decades. Every year hundreds of potential health care workers get turned away from schooling because we don't have the capacity. And everyone big idea is to ... not fix the root problem.
Any way you spin it this problem will take years to solve. Whether through immigration or through increased training capacity, it's going to take years. So we might as well let Canadians get trained for these jobs. We clearly want to, as evidenced by the greater number of applicants than seats.
I'm not against immigration by any means. I just don't hear anyone else talking about schooling capacity.
Then you're not listening.