COVID-19 pandemic, Canada’s public health systems are stretched thin while thousands of foreign-trained doctors living in Canada remain sidelined due to credentialing and licensing policies.Experts say the barriers in place include not recognizing international experience and asking foreign doctors to start as if they were freshly graduated medical students.
It’s limiting them from working in Canada as physicians and contributing to the effort to combat COVID.“This is the time to make a change,” said Shafi Bhuiyan, an assistant professor at the University of Toronto, who was a practicing doctor in Bangladesh, but had to work through the Canadian accreditation process.Dr.