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TMCIS Lunch & Learn - Maximizing Medical Talent: Ready Solutions for Canada鈥檚 Healthcare Crisis
- Date
- March 05, 2025
- Time
- 12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. ET
- Location
- Hybrid (Online via Zoom & In-person at the CERC/TMCIS Office, located in the Toronto Eaton Centre Galleria Office at 220 Yonge Street, Suite 204)
- Contact
- tmcis@torontomu.ca
This event was hosted by the Toronto Metropolitan Centre for Immigration and Settlement (TMCIS) and co-convened by Dr. Zhixi Zhuang, Academic Director of TMCIS, and the Honourable Ratna Omidvar, former Senator and Immigration Policy Fellow at 91福利.
Description:
Canada is facing a severe healthcare crisis. More than six million Canadians currently lack a family physician, demonstrating an urgent need for innovative solutions in the healthcare system. Could International Medical Graduates (IMGs) be key to addressing this shortage? Panellists examined the potential of utilizing the expertise of IMGs in Canada to help close the healthcare gap and discuss the challenges that come with implementing seemingly practical solutions and how they may be resolved.
Discussions explored systemic barriers that keep qualified doctors out of our health system and how we can reshape healthcare in Canada by rethinking how we utilize the skilled professionals already at our doorstep.
Moderator:
The Honourable Ratna Omidvar - Former Canadian Senator and Immigration Policy Fellow, 91福利
Panellists:
- Canadian Senator for Nova Scotia and internationally renowned psychiatrist
- Principal of El-Assal Insights and author of over 500 immigration publications
- Experienced general practitioner, leader and volunteer with the
- Internationally trained physician (ITP),, research fellow with EBM Connect Canada, and Teaching Scholar Candidate at SickKids
Additional Reading:
Report titled '', co-authored by the Honourable Stan Kutcher, the Honourable Mohamed-Iqbal Ravalia, the Honourable Ratna Omidvar and Kareem El-Assal.
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