SOCASMA WELCOMES AND RESPONDS TO CMA’S POLICY ON EQUITY AND DIVERSITY

The Canadian Medical Association (CMA) has recently published the CMA Policy on Equity and Diversity in Medicine. The awareness of discrimination in the medical profession and the development of this CMA policy brings tremendous hope to the international medical graduate community that there will be a change. In the words of the CMA: “When we address equity and diversity, we are opening the conversation to include the voices and knowledge of those who have historically been under-represented and/or marginalized.
Equity in the medical profession is achieved when every person has the opportunity to realize their full potential to create and sustain a career without being unfairly impeded by discrimination or any other characteristic-related bias or barrier.”
SOCASMA believes that the conversation the CMA invites should begin with point of entry jobs in the medical profession, i.e., access to resident physician positions, where international medical graduates have been historically, and continue to be under-represented and/or marginalized.

Clink on the following link to access the letter that Rosemary Pawliuk, Executive Director of Socasma, has sent to the CMA on June 16, 2020. Letter to CMA 20.06.16