FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVE APPLIED TO QUEBEC FOR A JOB TO FIGHT COVID 19 / POUR CEUX QUI ONT POSTULÉ POUR UN EMPLOI AU QUÉBEC POUR FAIRE FACE À LA COVID 19 (le français suit) Ms. Lucie Opatrny, Assistant Depuy Minister, Quebec’s Ministry of Health has written to us with some recommendations in […]

Town hall meeting for IMGs in BC. CSAs have been invited to a Zoom meeting for IMGs organized by physicians who immigrated to Canada.   Thursday May 21 from 5:30-7 PM PDT.   Here is the link for more information and registration.   https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/105439871494

The Canadian Red Cross is urgently seeking health care workers in Montreal (preference for bilingual candidates), but is also looking for health care workers elsewhere across the country.  You may want to apply. Message from Ayham Alomari: Dear IMGs, I am working with the Canadian Red Cross as a Senior Health Manager. We are recruiting […]

418 international medical graduates matched this year. At the end of the match 56 residency positions were unfilled, 49 of which were in Family Medicine. It is important for anyone planning to eventually apply for residency in Canada to have a good grasp of the odds of matching into residency as an IMG. See the […]

Excellent story from CTV News Toronto! Click following link: https://toronto.citynews.ca/video/2020/04/07/calls-for-foreign-trained-doctors-to-be-allowed-to-help-on-frontlines-of-coronavirus-battle/?fbclid=IwAR3FbigM7-LKcomUng3JhQX6iwZgFVfS0ocE7nJhdmcaiBnxVB0X3B-woWE

Click the following link to access the news release and link to portal: https://news.ontario.ca/opo/en/2020/04/ontario-calls-on-all-health-care-workers-to-help-fight-covid-19.html Cliquez le lien qui suit pour avoir accès au communiqué de presse et au lien pour le portail: https://news.ontario.ca/opo/fr/2020/04/lontario-appelle-tous-les-professionnels-de-la-sante-a-participer-a-la-lutte-contre-la-covid-19.html

Click on the following link For more information about this federal government program : https://www.canada.ca/en/public-service-commission/national-covid-19-recruitment-campaign-we-need-you.html Cliquez sur le lien qui suit pour de plus amples renseignements au sujet de ce programme fédéral: https://www.canada.ca/fr/commission-fonction-publique/campagne-nationale-recrutement-repondre-covid-19-nous-avons-besoin-vous.html

The College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC has posted a proposed addition to Part 2, Section B of the Bylaws under the Health Professions Act. Comments can be posted until April 15. Email address below. The new section 2-24 of the Bylaws will allow international medical graduates (IMGs) to be registered on a restricted […]

Here is the link to SOCASMA’S Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/socasma/?eid=ARA8Pa3iqbGJMnUP-o2kiW7oR1ki_omV5NLu2Km_axTnbc9gpYrZln99qcMl-6fV6CE0D1KGmKMJ8zF8 If you are a Canadian who is studying medicine abroad, you may also want to join the following Facebook group that is private. Being a private group, you need to provide us with some basic information in order to be able to join. Here’s the link: […]

Rosemary Pawliuk, Executive Director of Socasma, has written to elected officials and major decision makers in the medical field pressing them to increase medical residency funding and reduce barriers to medical licensing in order to address the current COVID 19 pandemic. Click on the link below to access this letter. COVID 19 2nd wave