Province also celebrating recruitment of 1,001 new family doctors in 2 years

Osborne says the province is changing its licensing rules so U.S.-trained doctors can begin practising in B.C. right away, without any need for further assessment, exams or training.

She said there will be a similar scale-back of the barriers facing U.S.-trained nurses and that a marketing campaign will be unveiled in Washington, Oregon and California within the next few months.

  • PortMoodyGuy@lemmy.caEnglish
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    1 month ago

    This is a brilliant move and good for everyone. It should inject some much needed personnel into our system very quickly and it helps those same people to leave the United States which may not be so welcoming anymore.

    • Otter Raft@lemmy.caOPEnglish
      1·
      1 month ago

      I don’t have any resources on hand, but I would think so. There are a number of infrastructure and housing projects in the works, and (experienced) software engineers seem to be in demand everywhere