August 2024 Blog
In This Issue:
- Meet us in Birmingham
- Featured Opportunity
- Summer in Canada
- Featured City
- Opportunities across Canada
- New Website
- Meet our New Licensing Specialists
- MCCQE1 Upcoming Dates
Meet us at the Best Practice Event in Birmingham on October 9 & 10!
Canada Medical Careers will be at the Best Practice Show in Birmingham on Wednesday October 9 and Thursday October 10 at the NEC Birmingham Conference Centre. Come and meet us at our stand and learn about practice opportunities in Canada! John Livingstone, president of Canada Medical Careers, Kelly Ann Schneider, Vice President and Jo-Ell St. Vincent, Medical Licensing Specialist will be available to answer questions both days. Come learn about practice opportunities, immigrating to Canada, and licensing processes. It’s guaranteed to be very informative.
Featured Opportunity
Vancouver Area! Maybe the best clinics in Canada! Great income and excellent support!
$500,000 CDN (£300,000) or more per annum.
We are pleased to represent a group of six clinics in the Vancouver area and have recruited 20 doctors for the owner over the last few years as he has expanded. The owner is a former UK GP who moved to Canada seven years ago. He can make your transition to Canada go very smoothly.
The income for GP’s in these clinics is consistently very high. No doctor we recruited has ever left a clinic.
The six clinics are in both the city of Vancouver and the suburbs. The support staff is excellent. There are no home visits, no hospital visits, and no out-of-hours work.
If you want a great work-life balance, this is the opportunity for you. When you are not working, you can enjoy the beauty of British Columbia. The clinics are very near the mountains which offer summertime hiking or wintertime skiing. Beautiful lakes and rivers are everywhere!
There are great schools, including an excellent university twenty minutes away.If you need to shop, some of Canada’s largest and nicest shopping malls are only minutes away.
The clinic doctors are like one big family enjoying summer barbeques, putting on dinners that represent the doctor’s countries of origin, going to football games together and even travelling to the USA for musical concerts.
Due to further expansion, we have a few openings that are sure to fill quickly. Please apply now! Contact [email protected].
Summer in Canada
A Wonderful Time of the Year
Summer in Canada is a beautiful experience with a lot of variety depending on where you are. In general, you can expect:
• Mild to Warm Temperatures: In many regions, summer temperatures can range from 20°C to 30°C (68°F to 86°F). In places like Vancouver or Victoria, the weather is usually quite pleasant with a lot of sunshine.
• Northern Lights: In parts of the far north, like the Yukon or Northwest Territories, you might still catch a glimpse of the Northern Lights if the skies are clear.
• Outdoor Activities: Summer is a great time for outdoor adventures. You can enjoy hiking, canoeing, kayaking, and camping. National parks like Banff, Jasper, and Yoho offer stunning landscapes and opportunities for exploration.
• Festivals and Events: There are numerous summer festivals and events across the country, from music and arts festivals to local fairs and farmers’ markets.
• Long Days: The further north you go, the longer the daylight hours. In places like Whitehorse or Inuvik, you can experience the Midnight Sun, where the sun barely sets.
• Diverse Landscapes: From the rugged coastlines of Newfoundland and the maritime provinces to the vast prairies of Alberta and Saskatchewan, and the stunning mountain scenery of British Columbia and the Rockies, Canada’s summer landscapes are incredibly diverse.
Overall, Canadian summers are a great time to explore the natural beauty of the country and enjoy a range of outdoor activities.
Featured Opportunities
Featured City - Victoria, British Columbia
Victoria was included in Travel and Leisure’s top 5 favourite cities in Canada! Victoria is a stunning worldly destination (welcoming 3 million+ visitors every year), but it’s always wonderful to be acknowledged and celebrated by others.
Every year, Travel + Leisure (T+L) magazine sends a survey out to readers as a part of their World’s Best Awards to weigh in on travel experiences around the globe—which includes cities, hotels, resorts, cruise ships and more.
For their ‘cities’ category, Victoria scored 2nd place—where readers unsurprisingly named the High Tea at the Fairmont Empress hotel and the famed Butchart Gardens as some of our best ‘can’t-miss experiences’.
Victoria has a population of 400,000 residents enjoying the best weather in Canada. The city is the capital of British Columbia and the largest city on Vancouver Island. Most people don’t realize how large Vancouver Island is. Would you be surprised to learn that at 31,000 square kilometers it is the same size as Belgium or Taiwan? Vancouver Island is half the size of Ireland and three quarters the size of Switzerland.
The major difference is the density. You can drive hundreds of miles and see nothing but trees. There are cities and towns of all sizes each with a personality of its own.
Canada Medical Careers is proud to have openings in the best clinics on Vancouver Island. Contact John Livingstone for information on our current openings [email protected].
New Website
CanadaMedicalCareers.ca
Canada Medical Careers is pleased to announce our website has been redesigned and is packed with new information that we hope you will find valuable – check out our “Useful Tips” section to learn about the many new ideas and experiences you will experience when you arrive in Canada! Learn about the various compensation models offered to doctors by the larger provinces of Canada. Discover the licensing processes.
Meet our New Licensing Specialists
You are invited to benefit from the expertise of Jo-Ell St. Vincent and Joanne Conway, formerly the top two people responsible for approving medical licenses with the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Manitoba. Each offers more than 30 years of experience guiding licence applicants to their new careers in Canada.
Jo-Ell and Joanne understand the licensing process with Medical Colleges across Canada and are ready to help guide you so that you possess a licence to practice medicine in the province of your choice.
PhysiciansApply Changes
As many of you planning to come to Canada know, you must have some documents verified by the Medical Council of Canada. The Medial Council of Canada operates a portal for this called PhysiciansApply.ca There have been some recent changes in the process of verifying documents:
• A Confirmation of Identity document is no longer required.
• You must submit a stand-alone passport photo of yourself.
• You must submit your wet signature (not digital) and about one-half inch high on a blank piece of white paper.
• You no longer use a cover sheet.
• You no longer email documents to PhysiciansApply.ca but rather upload the documents from your computer.
Visit CanadaMedicalCareers.ca/licensing/ under the “Licensing” tab to learn which documents are required.
MCCQE1 Upcoming Dates
The remaining dates to write the MCCQE1 exam in 2024 are August 21 – September 18 and October 16 – November 6. WARNING: The next exam dates are not until April 9 – May 21, 2025 with the exam results being released around August 21 , 2025 – twelve weeks later! With the additional licensing requirements, after you have your results, your licence may not be approved until mid-September or a little later. The exam format will also be different! So for those provinces requiring you to write the MCCQE1 exam it will be more than a year from now before you will be practicing in Canada.
The time to write is this year if at all possible.
Trouble Completing Your PhysiciansApply.ca Account?
As recruiters, we discovered that many physicians have difficulty supplying their information to this online service. A simple error, like not scanning all four corners of a document can cause rejection. Which documents do you have notarized? How do you submit your documents?
We have created an explanatory video that is yours FREE, just by asking. Contact [email protected] to receive your link!
If you are serious about practicing medicine in Canada the first thing you should do is open an account with PhysiciansApply.ca. It is an online portal operated under the auspices of the Medical Council of Canada (similar to the GMC in the UK). Every doctor coming to Canada must have an account. This is where your credentials must be verified. These credentials include your passport, medical degrees and more. Every province and territory of Canada has a regulatory authority to handle physician licensing and these authorities (Colleges) will need to access your PhysiciansApply.ca account before you can be licensed in Canada.
Don’t wait! Some documents can be verified quickly, and others may take some time, especially if you attended medical school in a country that is slow to respond to inquiries from Canada. If you are an IMG, licensing in Canada as a physician simply does not happen without a PhysiciansApply.ca account.
MRCGP and Family Practice Exams in Canada
The College of Family Physicians of Canada is the recognized licensing authority for family physicians in Canada. Those physicians coming from the UK, Ireland, Australia, or the USA will usually not have to write the examination required to practice as a General Practitioner in Canada. Verification of your MRCGP, MICGP, FRACGP, FACRRM, or DABFM will be required. For more information on this certification visit CFPC.ca and check out the Education and Professional Development section. Members in good standing will use the CCFP certification.
We like questions!
It’s likely that you will have questions along your journey to practicing in Canada. Don’t hesitate to contact John Livingstone at: [email protected]
Or call WhatsApp +1 250-885-8802 (9 AM – 6 PM Pacific Time)