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Originally Posted by CaramonLS
This is part of the disconnect of the Canadian immigration system and it has been happening for years.
The issue you identified is largely up to the professional bodies. For doctors in particular, if they immigrate to Canada, unless they are from a few specific countries, they will likely never perform a surgery in their lives again.
Even if you were a surgeon in your home country, the Canadian bridging program only allows you to become a GP and you can only start it in Canada (unsure if this has changed recently in the last few years, but it was always been like this). If you became a GP, you could then try to become a surgeon just like any other GP through the residency program, but your previous experience counts for nothing.
So it would take years for any specific specialization, the amount of new immigrants who would opt to do a full surgical residency is next to none.
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If you had a choice on who performs surgery on you. Someone trained in Pakistan with questionable teaching/training standards that only had to do an half-assed bridging in Canada or someone from England that have similar high standards to Canada. Who would you pick?