Canada is grappling with a severe shortage of family doctors — but Canadian-born family physicians working abroad are fighting to obtain the paperwork they need to practise here.
Dr. Stephanie DeMarchi, a general practitioner born in Hamilton, Ont., is trying to get a licence to practice in Canada after 10 years in Australia. She's been trying for more than a year.
In October, she sat for an eight-hour MCC exam testing medical knowledge. She said the test set her back a few thousand dollars. She said she's been holed up in Gundagai, a small town in rural New South Wales about 390 kilometres from Sydney, living in a caravan park and working at a local practice while her family is far away in southern Ontario."The process just has to change. It's not only affecting lives but it has the real potential to destroy lives as well.
In a media statement, a spokesperson for the MCC said it's "receiving a higher-than-normal number of applications." That might sound like an easy fix but DeMarchi has to pay a steep fee and wait for the Australian regulator to create new copies of documents she's already provided to another Canadian health-care gatekeeper."They just keep telling me, 'Look, ma'am, these things take time.' They're not saying, 'This is a Canadian who's studied and trained and she's ready to go, let's expedite this.' Nope.
A nurse works with a patient in the intensive care unit at the Halifax Infirmary in Halifax on Feb. 25, 2022. Canada is facing a shortage of health-care professionals while thousands of Canadian-born, foreign-trained doctors work abroad.
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