Originally Posted by aquinas
Foreign MD credentials are only sparsely accepted in Canada, with the majority of foreign doctors accepted being specialists from Australia, New Zealand, Britain, the US, Singapore, Switzerland, Hong Kong, and South Africa, largely from the mid-1990s onward. That excludes a lot of foreign doctors, and almost all GPs. There has been a concerted push within the Canadian medical community to build bilateral credential recognition mechanisms, even in the face of GP shortages, and the needle hasn't moved much on recognizing doctors outside a limited range of institutions. So, at least within the Canadian context, physician regulatory bodies have judged the additional training to be beneficial for patients.

(In case you're curious, I've linked the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada credential recognition criteria below.)

http://www.royalcollege.ca/rcsite/c...gs/jurisdiction/accepted-jurisdictions-e


Sounds like the criteria are, quite simply: first world country, English language education (the latter partially including Switzerland, which appears to have moved further towards using English in STEM education than other European countries). Of the cuff, I can say that both Britain and Switzerland have targeted medical education right after the high school level. Britain actually stops general ed after GCSEs, at the age of 16. A student may have seen nothing but STEM subjects from 11th grade onwards. Higher ed in all of the other countries tends to be modelled after Britain.

If you were to compare outcomes across Canada, you’d have to make a regression analysis removing the differences in both quality of student intake and of premed education at CEGEPs (which are really 12th year of high school and one year of college) and other 2 year colleges compared to the 3 years bachelors degrees at more reputed colleges, And then, specifically doctors whose extra year(s) of post secondary education have been spent with subjects related to medicine as opposed to general ed.

*everything else being equal*, I challenge you to find a significant improvement in health outcomes with doctors who have spent another two years in college taking general ed classes.



Last edited by Tigerle; 04/26/18 11:07 AM.