COVID 19: Vous êtes de retour au Canada et vous vous demandez ce que vous devez faire? Allez offrir vos services à votre hôpital local, un programme de résidence, une autorité sanitaire ou d’autres décideurs. Vous n’obtenez aucune réponse positive? Allez voir votre député provincial et demandez-lui de vous aider à obtenir un placement en […]

COVID 19 : You are currently in Canada and you are wondering what to do next? Go and offer your services to your local hospital, residency program, health authority, or other decision makers. You don’t get any positive response? Go and see your Provincial Member of Parliament and get him or her to help you […]

La pandémie du corona virus est sans précédent! En tant que Canadiens qui ont étudié la médecine à l’étranger, signalons à nos élus que nous sommes prêts à relever le défi COVID 19. Voir le modèle de lettre suivant que vous pouvez utiliser et modifier lorsque vous écrivez au Premier Ministre Trudeau, au ministre fédéral […]

These are unprecedented times! As Canadians who have studied medicine abroad, let’s tell decision makers that we are willing and ready to help address the COVID 19 challenge. See following template letter that you can use and modify when writing to Prime Minister Trudeau, the federal Minister of Health and your provincial Minister of Health. […]

We need more medical residency positions. More residency positions can be created if we press the federal government to replace foreigners with Canadian citizens and permanent residents by enforcing the provisions of the Immigration Act which requires Canadians to come first. If we stop allowing foreigners to use up our training resources and taking our […]

SOCASMA made a submission to the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario in which we submit that they need to take control of access to residency training because the current system is not only discriminatory but also compromises the public interest by not being competence based. CMGs can fail the MCCQE1 and practice as […]

Some study resources for studying for the MCCQE Part 1 include: Toronto Notes; Canada Q-Bank; CK for Step 2 of the USMLEs MCC’s website practice exams  mcc.ca/examinations/mccqe-part-i/preparation-resources/ MTB (Master the Boards) U World Question Bank, Kaplan notes/Q bank There are also commercial courses which some people find very helpful.   Canada specific that you should […]

We need more residency positions. More residency positions can be created if we press the federal government to replace foreigners with Canadian citizens and permanent residents by enforcing the provisions of the Immigration Act which requires Canadians to come first. If we stop allowing foreigners to use up our training resources and taking our training […]

SOCASMA has made a submission to the Steering Committee on Modernizing Health Professional Regulation of British Columbia. We believe that the discrimination international medical graduates face is a function of the Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons in failing in their duty to ensure that access to the medical profession is fair. Here is our submission. […]

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